Winner Regional Healthcare Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing score. Nursing proved to be its best category. In this area, we gave this facility an A. Our nursing rating consists of quite a few components, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to another one of this place's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection grade. Inspections turned out to be one of its best category grades. We gave this facility an B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Additionally, this facility also was given favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we gave it one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a score of B+. In our short-term care assessment, we try to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In our last area, this facility also received an excellent long-term care score, with a B+. This completed a very strong profile. For patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 87.90323 percent of its patients. This is somewhat less than we expected but still a decent figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.