Genoa Retirement Village

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, this place really excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection ratings are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This facility is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this area. Our short-term care scores are arguably most meaningful for residents requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B-. Long-term care grades assess a facility's assistance with daily living rather than the skilled therapy and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final category we graded is nursing. We gave it a B- in this category. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this area. There are many criteria within this area. Most of these data points reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this area. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning patients even once per day.