Woodhaven Manor Nursing Home

Woodhaven Manor Nursing Home is located in Demopolis, Alabama. This facility appears to be among the better facilities we looked at. A score of this caliber requires high-end marks across the board. You really can't do much better than this place. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

To go along with its strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home was given a dominant score of A- in our long-term care category. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.267395 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.74 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. Our nursing score weighs many subcategories, but the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home offers high levels of nursing care, averaging 4 hours per resident daily. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes provide. Lastly, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

The final category we assessed is short-term care. We gave this nursing home an acceptable score in this category, with a grade of B-. Although this was not as strong as some of its other scores, it is nevertheless not the end of the world. With our short-term care grade, we strive to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 41.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.