Forest Creek Village

Forest Creek Village is a large government-owned facility in Indianapolis, Indiana. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B-. A grade of this caliber requires some decent marks. Even in a city of 49 nursing homes, this nursing home turns out to be a fine choice. This place is stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that area with a grade of A. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

In addition, we also would like to note that this facility was given strong short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more impressive grades in this category, with a B. This proved to be the nursing home's second highest grade. Our short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. It was respectable in this area with 47.7 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. We looked at the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our rating in this area. This particular nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the higher totals we found. Lastly, we also baked a few quality measures into our nursing scores. This place was relatively weak in two of the major metrics we focus on, with below average marks for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are often accurate measures of the quality of nursing care provided.

The last category we analyzed was long-term care. For this category, we gave this nursing home a C. Our long-term care grade is used to measure a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 92.64305 percent of its residents. This is somewhat lower than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.15 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes based on the medical complexity of patients.