Grace Village Health Care Facility

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. The nursing grade assesses a handful of components, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 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 nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that area. Our inspection scores are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Facilities that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This facility is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it was given a grade of B+. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this category. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. We awarded this facility an acceptable grade in this category, with a B-. Even though this was not as dominant as some of its other grades, it is nevertheless not a major area of concern. In the category of long-term care, we look at the quantity of care provided by a facility, rather than more sophisticated services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 56.363636 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points less than the national average. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.