Woodlyn Heights Senior Living

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home received even higher grades for short-term care. It received one of our best scores in that area with an A. Short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also received an excellent nursing grade. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in determining our score in this area. This facility provided 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 place 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 many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also wanted to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them a grade of B+ in this category. Inspection ratings are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to 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. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

The final category we scored is long-term care. We gave it a lowly F for this category, which is a rock bottom grade. You should not simply rule out a facility because of one terrible score though. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means the facility did not perform well in our measures relating to resident care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 93.333336 percent of its residents. This is somewhat less than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.