Envoy at the Village

Although we were not complementary of this place's overall performance, it actually received an impressive inspection report this year with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that area with a B+. Our inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home's next highest area turned out to be its long-term care score, where it was awarded a B-. Our long-term care grade is commonly used to assess a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit worried that this facility administered the vaccine to just 90.5 percent of its patients. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

As it turns out, this facility only received a D for its short-term care score, which is not a very good score. Short-term care scores are important for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With its score in this category, we weren't stunned to learn that this place is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care score.

The next area we looked at is nursing, which turned out to be a weak link for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of D for our nursing category. We looked at the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses spent with residents, in determining our score in this area. This place averaged a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This statistic is far below the national average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.