Fox Run Village

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. In calculating our nursing ratings, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving a patient even once per day.

The last category we rated was long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a better than average long-term care grade in our assessment, with a grade of B-. Although this is not nearly as impressive as many of its other scores, this is nevertheless a respectable score for this category. In computing our long-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 94 percent of its residents. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.