American Village

American Village is in the large metropolitan area of Indianapolis, Indiana. This turns out to be a very solid facility, with an overall grade of B. In fact, we thought highly enough of this facility to rate it ahead of most of the facilities in Indianapolis. The best part of this nursing home's impressive report card is its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This facility performed well in the area of short-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- for that area, which happens to be one of our most dominant grades. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in this area with 67.2 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

The third area we analyzed was long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. In our long-term care rating, we focus more on the sheer volume of care offered by a nursing home, along with a handful of quality datapoints. This facility's vaccination records weren't as favorable a few of its other datapoints in this category, such as its nursing hours data. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 53.67647 percent of its patients. We would love to see some improvement in this area in the future. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had just 1.62 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Our last category is nursing, where we awarded this facility a B- in this area. The nursing category is based on several data points, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This place provided 4.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is an impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at a few nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is usually a fairly reliable measure of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving residents even once per day.