American Village
2026 E 54th St, Indianapolis IN 46220 · (317) 253-6950 · 89.46% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
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
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 150 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
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.
Short-term Care Quality
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.
Long-term Care Quality
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.
Nurse Quality
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.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
American Village Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay residents that have new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of a facility's nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care residents who experienced falls resulting in serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be a sign of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Additional nurse staffing can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders. Tragically, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are typically used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the deterioration of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue that this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better