Woodlands Health and Rehab Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection scores are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was superb in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Few facilities received a better grade in this area. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. After considering the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 96.98276 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning our third category, this nursing home was awarded a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a score of A- in that area. Our short-term care scores are likely more meaningful for people requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing. This means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Switching gears to the next category, this nursing home was given a respectable nursing grade. Even though this wasn't as elite as a few of its other category grades, this is still not the end of the world. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a somewhat alarming figure which is well below average. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.