Hoosier Village

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides 1.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its short-term care grade. In forming our short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In addition, this nursing home also received excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best grades in that category, with a score of A. Inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The next area we scored is long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility an acceptable grade of C. This actually was this facility's worst category. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on vaccination rates. Finally, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.