Woodlands Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center

Woodlands Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center is a large facility located in Clinton, Mississippi. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B, which is a very respectable score. Based on our ratings, this place looks like a good fit for most people. This place's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality facility is that it earned an impressive inspection score. In fact, inspections is its best category grade. In this area, we gave this facility an A-. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Additionally, this facility also received favorable long-term care grades this year. Indeed, we awarded it one of our higher grades in that area, with a score of B. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.46524 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.31 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. When calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses are with residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was above the national average. Finally, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

The final area we graded is short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B. This nursing home did not turn out to have any weak areas. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. It fared better than most facilities in this area with 51.3 percent of its residents returning home. For most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.