Future Care Charles Village

On top of earning a great overall grade, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent government inspections. We awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category usually have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

We also gave this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care grade. Our short-term care grades are vital for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also received an excellent nursing grade. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Nursing grades are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages 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 place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of C. This proved to be this nursing home's worst area. This is still not the end of the world. In forming our long-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated only 85.34202 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.