Chimney Rock Villa

To go along with its favorable overall performance, we gave this place an A- for the area of inspections. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. The nursing rating is based on several subcategories. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also was awarded a favorable short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this category. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is often a useful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home was given a C in long-term care, which we consider to be a respectable grade. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 95.522385 percent of its residents. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.