Woodlands Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

In addition, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was given impressive short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our more impressive scores in that category, with a grade of B+. This proved to be the nursing home's second highest grade. Short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. It does not appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

The third area we graded was long-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B- in this category. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated only 80.497925 percent of its residents for pneumonia. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we analyzed was nursing, was this facility's least impressive area. We gave this facility a D in that area. This was one of just a couple of weak points of a strong profile. There are a variety of subcategories included in this area. Most of these factors reflect nurse staffing. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is significantly below the national average. In addition to receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic dragged down this facility's nursing rating significantly.