Future Care Charles Village

On top of being a strong facility overall, this nursing home excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A. Few facilities fared better in that category. Our inspection grades are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

We also awarded this facility a score of A for our short-term care score. In computing these short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. We analyzed the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses were with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to our final area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D for long-term care. This is the facility's least impressive category score. Naturally, this category hurt the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 83.3887 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best feature in this category.