Country Villa Claremont Health Center

To pair with its decent overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for its inspection grade. This is far better than its overall grade. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home also was given a strong long-term care score. Indeed, we gave them a grade of B in this category, which happens to be one of our better. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. When determining our nursing ratings, we weigh both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is well below average. Finally, although this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this metric.

Switching gears to the next area, this nursing home really didn't perform very well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this is this facility's poorest area. Our short-term care grade is typically used to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Given its score in this area, we were not surprised to find that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.