Future Care Charles Village

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility also fared well in the area of short-term care. For this reason, we gave it a score of A- in that category, which is one of our best scores. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. We weighed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses were with patients, in determining our score in this area. This place averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Moving on to the final category, this nursing home did not perform well. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is this nursing home's worst category. Long-term care scores in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 83.52941 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be significantly lower than what we expected. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.