Aberdeen Village

In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home earned an excellent inspection report. Consequently, we gave it one of our highest scores in this category with an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also excelled in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Only a select group of facilities performed better in this area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This nursing home's vaccination records were not as impressive as its nursing hours data. This facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 85.71429 percent of its residents. We'd love to see some improvement in this area next year. Clearly, this place 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 figure.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. There are a variety of factors within this category. Many of the criteria relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This place provides an incredible 4.6 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

In the final area, we gave this facility an A for its short-term care grade. This topped off a very strong profile. Short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. When we assessed this nursing home's nursing hours, we found it provided quite a bit more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it was respectable in this area with 46.6 percent of its patients returning home.