Wolfeboro Bay Center

To pair with its favorable overall score, we gave this facility an A for the area of inspections. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Additionally, this nursing home also received favorable long-term care scores this year. Indeed, we awarded it one of our better scores in that category, with a score of B+. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 77.35191 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is a few points below what we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

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. The nursing category consists of quite a few datapoints, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this facility was given an acceptable short-term care score. Even though this is not quite as good as some of its other grades, this is truly not a terrible score. Short-term care grades are often used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.