Woodbine Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center

In addition to faring well overall, this facility received nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. Inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This nursing home's vaccination statistics lagged a bit behind a few of its other statistics in this area, such as its nursing hours. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 87.068 percent of its residents. We would like to see some improvement in this area in the future. Fortunately, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. While it had 2.85 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than most facilities since it had more complicated patients.

This nursing home also received an impressive short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this area. With our short-term care assessment, we seek to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. It performed as well as just about any facility in Virginia in this area with 64.4 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, less than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

The final area we scored is nursing. This nursing home received a very good nursing grade this year, with a grade of C. Although this wasn't quite as dominant as a few of its other scores, this remains a decent score for that category. There are numerous data points included in this category. Many of the factors relate to nurse staffing. According to its CMS reports, this place provided an average of 4 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which was above average. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.