Woodside Manor Nursing Home

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall score is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better grades in that category, with an A+. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you 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. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home's second best category ended up being short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. Our short-term care scores are believed to be most important for people requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.

The next most favorable area we gave this facility in any category came in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a C. In crafting these long-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's personal care services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 79.545456 percent of its patients. This is multiple points below what we were hoping for. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's worst area is nursing, which is the last category we analyzed. For this category, we awarded this facility a D. The nursing rating is based on a number of data points. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility averaged just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, 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 percentage of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.