Hcc at White Horse Village

With an address in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, Hcc at White Horse Village is one of just a few facilities in this city. Featuring an overall grade of A+, this facility is among the most elite facilities we looked at. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top ten percentile of all facilities in the United States. Headlining this facility's exemplary report card is its inspection reports, which you can find in the next section.

To go along with its favorable overall score, we awarded this facility an A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this facility a grade of A+ for its long-term care grade. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of looking at the well above average volume of care provided by aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were happy with the nursing home's vaccination data. For example, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.21429 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.4 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Nursing grades are mostly based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is among the higher totals in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We were really impressed by these figures. On top of looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as good indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

In the last category, this nursing home also received an excellent short-term care grade, with a grade of B+. This completed a very impressive profile. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is generally a solid assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. This nursing home elevated its score in this area by offering more care from registered nurses than the typical facility. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that it fared respectably with 45.8 percent of its residents returning home.