Woodland Pond at New Paltz

We also want to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an A+ in this area. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. This facility provided 7.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This was one of the highest figures we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of offering high levels of care, this facility also fared well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility outpaced the national average. This is often a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided with better nursing care and a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Not many nursing homes performed as well in this area. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also want to alert you to the fact that this nursing home received a superb score of A in our short-term care category. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is more often than not a fair measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. This facility is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. It provided about 1.5 times as many physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that it performed better than most facilities in this area with 50.4 percent of its patients returning home.

In the final category we scored, this facility was given a very strong grade of A- in our long-term care category. With this score, the nursing home finished off a straight A report card. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 95.45455 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.57 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.