Wooded Glen

Wooded Glen is located in Springfield, Ohio. It looks like this is a very good nursing home. We awarded this it an overall grade of B+, which is very favorable score. Based on our analysis, this nursing home ought to meet the needs of most people. This nursing home is better in some categories than others, but it did not have any weak links in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes fared better in this area. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home really excelled in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Few facilities performed more favorably in this area. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 93.68421 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 2.28 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had more complex patients.

This facility also was given a strong short-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our short-term care grades are believed to be most critical for patients needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who returned to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the overwhelming majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 56.7 percent of its residents returning home.

The last area we scored is this nursing home's worst area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it a decent grade of B- in our nursing category. When calculating our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides an impressive 4.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a greater quantity of nursing care than what is provided by most places. Lastly, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing scores. This facility was relatively weak in two of the metrics we considered, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are generally good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.