Falls Village Retirement Community

On top of being a strong nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A+. Not many nursing homes performed better in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home received an impressive short-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. In computing our nursing ratings, we analyze both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving patients more frequently.

The final area we scored was long-term care. We gave this facility a C in this area. In our long-term care score, we assess the quantity of services provided by a nursing home, along with a few qualitative measures. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.305084 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.