Wyoming Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had some 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 safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's second highest category is short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be most meaningful for folks in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The real question is whether this adversely affected quality of care. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our nursing score is largely associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, our nursing grades also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The last category we scored is long-term care. For that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. In calculating these long-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's personal care services. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 98.96907 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This place keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.