Envoy of Williamsburg

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is one of our better scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. This place had 8 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in any of the categories labeled J through L. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to put resident safety or health in immediate harm or jeopardy. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. Our nursing grade assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

Unfortunately, this facility only earned a D for its short-term care score, which is well below average in this category. Our short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. As you might expect, we discovered that this facility provides far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the vaccine to 95.72954 percent of its patients, which is a very solid datapoint. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.