Landmark of Danville

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it performed pretty well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B for that area, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with a bunch of deficiencies flagged. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Despite this deficiency, this place still had a relatively positive report.

This nursing home also didn't grade out too badly in the category of long-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of B- for that category, which wound up being another one of its more favorable grades. Long-term care grades are generally used to assess a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.36709 percent of its residents. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another issue was the F this nursing home was given in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care grades are thought to be more critical for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. With a grade in this range for this area, we weren't surprised to discover this nursing home was well below average in many staffing areas we focus on. It supplied significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

The last area we looked at was nursing, in which this nursing home received a rock bottom grade in this category as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. Nursing grades are primarily associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is not a very impressive figure. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.