Wood Glen Alzheimer's Community

Although we gave this nursing home a horrible overall score, we awarded it a grade of A- for our inspections score. This grade is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care grade and that actually wound up as its second highest category. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 96.460175 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Nursing scores are primarily associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we looked at was short-term care. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is a very poor score. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most important for folks needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Given its weak grade in this area, we were not surprised to find this nursing home provides substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.1 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below average.