Franciscan Village

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home excelled in our short-term care rating, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is more often than not a reliable measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our nursing score is primarily associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection rating. This proved to be one of its best grades. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

The last area we graded is long-term care. We awarded this facility a decent grade in this category, with a grade of C. Even though this isn't on par with some of its other grades, it is nevertheless not a poor grade. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 97.003746 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.