Franciscan Villa

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also received A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections are virtually flawless. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another reason we rated this facility so favorably is that it was awarded an A+ long-term care grade. This is flat out as elite as it gets in this category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.01961 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our nursing score analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving residents more frequently.

The last area we looked at was short-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of B-. This actually turned out to be this facility's weakest area. This is nevertheless not a terrible score. With our short-term care rating, we try to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below average.