Envoy at the Village

While this facility earned a decent overall score, its inspections rating is notably better than its overall grade. Due to a strong government inspection report this year, it received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in short-term care. This facility earned a grade of B in this category, which is one of our more favorable grades. In our short-term care score, we endeavor to create a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The third best category we gave this facility in any category came in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a C. Our long-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's volume of nursing services. This means a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility vaccinated 98.61111 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable datapoint. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to the final category, this nursing home received a grade of C for nursing, which is generally a decent rating. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is far below average. Finally, nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.