Falls Village Retirement Community

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection ratings are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility earned an B in our nursing category. Nursing scores are primarily associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home's third best area was short-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road grade in this category. Short-term care grades are generally employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

The next category we scored is long-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this facility a D in that category. Unfortunately, this category hurt the facility's overall grade to some degree. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.095024 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.