Asistencia Villa Rehabilitation and Care Center

Although this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it did receive a very good grade in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B for that category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection ratings are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you 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 minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

One of this nursing home's higher category scores came in the category of short-term care. This ended up being its second most favorable category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is generally a solid measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The third highest area we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. Long-term care scores are meaningful for prospective residents looking for personal care. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we graded is nursing, which was a weak link for this facility. We gave this nursing home a D in our nursing category. In computing our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percent of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This nursing home was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign in light of the fact that many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.