Broadway Villa Post Acute

This facility received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially would like to emphasize its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This facility really excelled in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Not many nursing homes performed more favorably in this category. Short-term care grades are generally employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be a real strength for this facility. It outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 58.1 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

Adding to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also received an excellent nursing grade. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure which typically leads to higher quality care. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its residents sustaining falls which lead to major injury, this facility performed as well as any facility in the country.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. We awarded this facility a decent grade in that area, with a grade of B-. While this was not as dominant as many of its other scores, it is nevertheless not a bad grade. In the area of long-term care, we assess the amount of care provided by a facility, rather than more medically-intensive services. On top of providing solid levels of nurse staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This figure is better than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.8 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.