Woodlands Health Care

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received even higher grades in long-term care. It received one of our best grades in that area with a grade of A. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility also performed well in the area of inspections. It received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. It received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Few facilities with an overall score in this range performed this well in multiple categories. Inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. Our nursing rating is based on many datapoints, but the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Turning to our next category, this facility was given an acceptable short-term care grade. Even though this wasn't nearly as good as many of its other category grades, this is really not a major area of concern. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below average.