Father Murray, a Villa Center

Although this facility's overall score was as bad as it gets, it didn't perform as poorly in the area of nursing. We gave it a C for that category. Our nursing grade features a variety of factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

Sadly, this nursing home's second highest category is long-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed somewhat badly. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 77.66854 percent of its patients. This is multiple points less than the national average. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

Unfortunately, this facility didn't receive glowing inspections in recent years. We gave it a grade of just D for our inspections rating. One of the more significant factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility had 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received large government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This usually means that a poor performance spanned several years.

The last area we scored was short-term care. This nursing home received a poor grade of F in this area. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this place is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.