Woodlands of Gillett

This nursing home received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially want to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave it an A in this category. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report, which is still very impressive. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on our next category, this nursing home was awarded a dominant short-term care grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. In computing our short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The last area we rated is long-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this facility a grade of D in that category. Nevertheless, we wouldn't assess this nursing home based solely on a single category, as it earned multiple excellent grades in other areas. For patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.