Woodbriar Nursing Home

Woodbriar Nursing Home is located in Harrisburg, Arkansas. This nursing home proved to be a solid facility, with an overall grade of B-. Based on our analysis, there are certainly far worse places out there. You also may want to review this nursing home's category grades below. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this place earned a much better grade for long-term care than it received overall. In fact, we gave it one of our best scores in that category with an impressive grade of A. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After looking at the very impressive nursing hours provided by this nursing home, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is much higher than the average nursing home. The last datapoint we assessed is the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 4.46 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as strong as some of its other scores in this area, this number may be skewed for some nursing homes based on some of the medical complexity of patients.

This facility also performed well in the area of inspections. It received one of our highest grades in that area with an A-. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. Our nursing rating includes many subcategories, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 4.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the higher totals we found. Lastly, we also assessed a few nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is usually a fairly accurate measure of quality nursing care.

This nursing home's weakest category is short-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. It received an F for this area. In spite of multiple respectable grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless disappointing so we felt obligated to make sure you are aware. In our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to craft a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. It appears that this place was subpar in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 37.6 percent of its residents returning home.