Woods Crossing at Woods Point

We also found that this facility excelled at short-term care. We gave them an A+ in this area. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more critical for those in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional skilled nursing. This means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home has received near flawless government inspections recently. We gave them an A in this category. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also want to point out the fact that this facility received a high-end grade of A in our long-term care area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the last category we graded, this facility was awarded a very favorable grade of A- in our nursing category. With this grade, the facility completed a straight A profile. The nursing grade includes many data points, however, the main consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.