Father Murray, a Villa Center

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 B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. This facility received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. Our nursing score is mostly tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below the national average. Lastly, while this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed well in this area.

Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its long-term care score. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated 85.94378 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be significantly below average. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

The next category we looked at is short-term care, where this facility was given a very poor grade in this category as well. It received an abysmal F for this category, which is definitely somewhat alarming. In crafting our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Based on its poor score in this area, we were not shocked to find this facility provides far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.