Friendship Village

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that category. The nursing category includes quite a few datapoints, many of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing scores also consider quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

This facility also didn't fare too badly in the category of short-term care. In fact, we gave it a B- for that category, which is another one of its better grades. Short-term care grades are vital for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The tricky part is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, it only received a grade of D for its inspection grade. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. You should be especially cautious when considering a nursing home with severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This particular facility was assessed one deficiency by government inspectors. Fortunately, it was not in a category that suggests that it caused a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

The next area we assessed is long-term care, in which this facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade here as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this category, which is obviously a major concern. Nursing homes that do not fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 51.690823 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.