Woodridge Nursing Home

Woodridge Nursing Home is located in Barre, Vermont. This nursing home was awarded an uninspiring overall grade of D, which is a relatively poor grade. Unfortunately, this grade isn't too far off the city grade for Barre, which is a C. Nevertheless, you still ought to be able to do better The only positive thing we can really say about this nursing home is that it did not receive any F's in in any of the major categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

Although we did not rate this facility well overall, we want to note its decent government inspection reports in recent years. We gave it a relatively respectable score of B- in this category. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an B-. We looked at the licensure of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our score in this area. This particular nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility's next best area turned out to be short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B-. Short-term care grades are important for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This facility provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually an encouraging sign. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. It performed well with 57.1 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home's weakest area is long-term care, which is the final category we assessed. In this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care likely don't provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes provide. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 51.08959 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.98 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.