Flower Villa

This nursing home's best grade came in long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. This nursing home received 11 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. Our nursing score assesses many subcategories, most of which are based on nursing hours. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving residents more often.

The next category we rated is short-term care. We gave it a C in that category. This is a decent grade in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is generally a solid measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this nursing home. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.