Hoosier Village

This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent health inspections in recent years. We gave it an A+ in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. This place was hit with 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home was given an impressive short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Nursing grades are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Indiana in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning patients even once per day.

This facility's worst category was long-term care, which is the final area we scored. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of just D. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We weren't able to find this place's vaccination data. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.