Woodland Pond at New Paltz

We also wanted to emphasize that this nursing home excelled in our nursing grade. We gave them an A+ in this area. When computing our nursing ratings, we look at both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's inspection reports. We awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our inspection ratings are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on our third area, we awarded this nursing home a score of A- for its long-term care grade. This is a first-rate score. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 94.69027 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the final category we assessed, this nursing home received an impressive grade grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this score, the nursing home wrapped up a straight A profile. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 4.5 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.