Cedar Wood Villa

One of the reasons this nursing home performed well overall is it fared well in the category of inspections, with a B+ in that area. It outperformed most facilities in this area. Inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another strong feature for this nursing home is that it was awarded an above average short-term care score. Indeed, this wound up being its second best category score. In this category, we awarded this facility a B+. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is more often than not a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 86.8421 percent of its patients. This is a bit less than we anticipated but still a respectable figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we analyzed is nursing. We awarded this nursing home one of our more favorable scores in that category, with a B. This facility ended up being strong across the board. Our nursing rating includes a variety of factors. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.