Hcc at White Horse Village

In addition to faring well overall, this facility also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A+. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A+. Our nursing score includes a number of datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is among the more impressive totals in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more skilled levels of nurses. We are really impressed by both of these statistics. On top of offering high levels of nursing care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed as well as any facility in the state when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. Contributing to its strong profile, this nursing home also performed well in this category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A- in that area. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. This nursing home's vaccination statistics weren't as favorable as its nursing hours. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 90 percent of its residents. We would love to see some improvement in this area next year. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.63 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a very strong short-term care score. Even though this was not nearly as dominant as several of its other scores, this is still one of our more impressive grades a facility can receive. With our short-term care rating, we endeavor to create a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 39 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.