Wooster Community Hospital Skilled Nursing Facility

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home earned nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it earned one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for its short-term care grade. With our short-term care score, we attempt to craft a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. The nursing grade is based on a variety of factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In our last category, we awarded this facility an A+ for its long-term care rating. This topped off a very impressive report card. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.