Winslow House Care Center

Although we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. This score is better than this place's overall score. Our inspection ratings are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

We also awarded this facility a grade of B- for our nursing rating. When calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the quantity of hours nurses are caring for patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it scored well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care provided.

The next category we assessed was short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a solid grade of B-. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is frequently a meaningful assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The key is determining what effect this had on the quality of care. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

This facility's weakest area was long-term care, which is the last area we scored. In this area, we gave this facility a grade of D. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the facility did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 92.94118 percent of its residents. This is somewhat lower than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.