Franciscan Villa

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. For residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 88.41202 percent of its patients. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In addition, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home's third most favorable area was short-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is often a reliable assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this facility was awarded a respectable nursing rating. While this is not nearly as elite as many of its other scores, this is still not a poor grade. There are quite a few criteria included in this category. Most of the data points are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This place provides only 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below the national average. Lastly, our nursing ratings also consider some quality-focused metrics. We especially look at the percentage of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care can reduce these problems.