Hoosier Christian Village

Hoosier Christian Village is the sole option we identified in Brownstown, Indiana. This facility is ranked among the highest-rated facilities we assessed. It was given one of the highest grades that we offer. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top 25 percent of all nursing homes in the nation. If you scroll down, you can see this place's category ratings, which are equally impressive as its overall rating.

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also received A+ inspections recently. Its inspections were nearly perfect. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

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 primarily tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

We also want to note the fact that this nursing home was awarded an elite grade of A- in our long-term care category. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 94.362015 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to avoid negative health outcomes for the nursing home population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.58 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to the final area, this nursing home also performed admirably in our short-term care category. We awarded it a grade of A- for that area. This topped off a straight A report card. Short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. This place fared better than most facilities in this area with 55.2 percent of its patients returning home. For most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.