Woodland Terrace

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility an A. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a patient more frequently.

The next area we looked at was long-term care. Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also performed well in this category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A- for the category. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.76923 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize negative health outcomes for the elderly population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last category we analyzed is short-term care. We gave this facility one of our better scores in this area, with a grade of B. Even though this wasn't on par with several of this nursing home's other scores, it is nevertheless a positive score. Short-term care grades are commonly used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 4.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.