Woodland Hills Care Center

While this nursing home's overall score was terrible, it actually performed pretty well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with a bunch of deficiencies flagged. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't 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 necessarily the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its long-term care grade. Facilities that do not score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 61.988304 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility wasn't as bad as we expected at keeping its patients out of the hospital. While it had 2.25 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't bad since it had some more complex patients.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. When calculating our nursing scores, we factor in both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided just 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. This nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hours. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than twice the national average in this statistic. This is alarming when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of receiving a poor nursing score.

The final category we graded is short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is a poor score. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Considering its poor grade in this area, we weren't shocked to find this nursing home offers significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 37.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.