Wolcott View Manor

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home also performed well in our inspections category, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Contributing to its first-rate assessment, this facility also was given a dominant short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next area we looked at is long-term care. This facility was awarded a better than average long-term care score this year, with a B-. Even though this was not as good as several of its other grades, this remains a decent score in that area. For patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted data regarding vaccinations. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.