Woods Edge Rehab and Nursing

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Inspection grades 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 nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

As it turns out, this facility only earned a D for its long-term care grade, which was actually one of its more respectable category grades. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 92.95302 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the number of hours nurses are caring for patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these datapoints to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we graded was short-term care, where this facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade in this category as well. It received a lowly F in this category, which is obviously somewhat alarming. In calculating these short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. 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 percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.