Woodhaven Care Center

This nursing home really excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it an impressive grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. This salvaged its profile. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We also want to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our nursing category analyzes a handful of factors, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, nursing grades also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care. Sadly, it received an F in this category, which is a very poor score. This is certainly a significant concern. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. We were a bit worried that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to only 90.07936 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.