Woodside Village Care Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 93.39207 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat below what we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also gave this nursing home a solid grade in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Turning to the fourth area, this facility was given a decent nursing score of C. When computing our nursing grades, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. While this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this metric. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning residents at least once a day.