Wyant Woods Care Center

Although we graded this place incredibly poorly overall, it earned a relatively impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our more favorable scores in that category with a grade of B. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with too many severe deficiencies flagged. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility also didn't fare terribly in the category of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which wound up being another one of its more favorable grades. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to just 70.3827 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Our nursing score is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Moving on to our last category, this nursing home didn't fare well in this area either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With its poor grade in this area, we weren't shocked to discover this place offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.