Woodbine Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center

Woodbine Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center is a very-large nursing home in Alexandria, Virginia. Featuring an overall score of B+, this looks like a strong facility. This will likely be on your short list in Alexandria as we ranked it as one of the top three facilities in the city. Finally, this facility did have an ownership change in the last 12 months, so we'll have to keep an eye on it to make sure it maintains its excellent quality standards.

In addition to earning a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed even better in our inspections category which is based on the facility's recent inspections. In fact, we gave it an A for this category, which is one of our best grades. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home was awarded high marks in the area of short-term care as well. As a result, we awarded it one of our highest grades in that area with a score of A-. In our short-term care grade, we endeavor to forge a sound measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This facility provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in this area with 61 percent of its patients returning home.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care. This facility received a favorable long-term care score, with a grade of B in this area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After looking at the significant amount of nursing hours provided by this facility, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.5338 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Although it had 2.43 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was middle of the road since it had some more complex patients.

Turning to the final category, this nursing home was awarded a decent nursing grade. While this is not nearly as good as many of its other scores, this is really not the end of the world. In determining a facility's nursing score, we consider the number of hours nurses are seeing patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides an impressive 4.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is among the higher totals in Virginia. Finally, we also factored some quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. Specifically, we looked at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.