Club Health and Rehabilitation Center at the Villages

On top of earning a strong overall score, this nursing home also earned an elite short-term care grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of A-. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most important for people needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we gave this nursing home an B+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

The next area we graded is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B-. In crafting these long-term care grades, we assess the facility's personal care services. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. We weren't able to track down this place's vaccination data. Finally, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to our next category, this nursing home was given a B- for nursing, which is an acceptable rating. The nursing rating consists of many components, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a somewhat alarming figure as it is well below average. Finally, we look at quality-based statistics, such as the percent of residents who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care.