Wisteria Gardens

This facility received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave it an impressive grade of A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. We were not able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. We wish we had more data for this nursing home. Without having all of the deficiency data, it is a challenge to grade this facility in this category.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so well is that it received a favorable short-term care score. In fact, short-term care ended up being its second highest category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A. Our short-term care grade is often used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Nursing grades are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a patient even once per day.

The final area we analyzed is this facility's worst category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it an acceptable grade of B- for our long-term care category. In determining these long-term care grades, we analyze the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were not able to find this place's vaccination data. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.