Woodmont Center

While we were not high on this facility's overall performance, it actually received an impressive inspection report this year with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that category with a B+. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid places that had too many deficiencies. This place was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Another one of this facility's better category grades came in the category of long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B. It actually performed better than most nursing homes in this category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 70.87379 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is a few points below what we were hoping for but still a decent figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Sadly, this nursing home's third highest score is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this area, it still performed somewhat poorly. Our short-term care ratings are important for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The last area we graded was nursing. We gave it a lowly F for this category, which is a very poor grade. When computing our nursing scores, we analyze both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This place offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics pulled down this facility's nursing grade significantly.