Flower Villa

Part of the reason this facility performed well overall is that it excelled in nursing, with a B+ in that area. It outperformed most facilities in this area. The nursing grade weighs many factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, this facility excelled in inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 11 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Additionally, this facility also was awarded favorable long-term care grades this year. Indeed, we awarded it one of our higher grades in that category, with a grade of B. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Switching gears to the next category, this facility received a decent short-term care grade of C. Our short-term care scores are probably most critical for people needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. It doesn't look like this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.