American Village

Although we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the place's overall grade. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Additionally, we gave this nursing home a B in our short-term care category. This is one of our more favorable grades. Short-term care ratings are crucial for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. It does not look like this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

As it turns out, this facility only earned a grade of D for its long-term care score, which is well below average in this category. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 84.06593 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.

The last category we scored is nursing. This facility was given a very poor grade of F in this category. Our nursing category is based on several factors, most of which are based on nursing hours. This particular nursing home offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This statistic is well below average. In addition to receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this facility was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents suffering pressure ulcers and found that this facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really pulled down this facility's nursing rating substantially.