Farmington Village

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality facility is that it earned a very impressive inspection grade. Inspections is its best category grade. In this area, we awarded it an A. Our inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Contributing to its profile, this nursing home also earned a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this area. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This score is more often than not a fair assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning residents at least once a day.

The next area we graded is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a grade of B-. While this proved to be its worst category grade, this is still not the end of the world. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the data points we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.