Woodland Terrace

Woodland Terrace is an average-sized non-profit facility located in Waverly, Iowa. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B+. A grade of this caliber requires strong marks in most areas. Based on all of the relevant data, you can do much worse than this place. This nursing home is better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

On top of earning a great overall rating, this nursing home fared even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent inspection reports. We awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Among the reasons we rated this facility so favorably is that it was given a favorable short-term care score. In fact, short-term care turned out to be its second most favorable category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A-. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be more meaningful for patients requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. This place fared better than most facilities with 53.4 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. In determining our nursing scores, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home averages 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Turning to the fourth area, this facility was awarded a decent long-term care grade. While this is not as dominant as some of its other scores, this is really nothing to be ashamed of. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 99.42363 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.