Galtier a Villa Center

In addition to having a decent overall grade, we also wanted to note that this nursing home received favorable nursing marks this year. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a B+. This proved to be the facility's top score. We weighed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a patient at least once a day.

Inspections is another category where this nursing home excelled. In fact, we gave this nursing home an B+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home's next highest category turned out to be its long-term care score, where it was given a B-. For patients seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated only 68.86447 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Our final category is short-term care, in which we awarded this facility a grade of C in this area. Short-term care grades are typically used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 3.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.