Hoosier Village

Hoosier Village is a very-small non-profit nursing home located in Indianapolis, Indiana. This nursing home turns out to be an A+ rated facility, which is our very best rating. This is quite a bit better than most of the facilities in Indianapolis. If you scroll down, you will see this nursing home's category scores, which look to be equally impressive as its overall grade.

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this facility earned an A+ inspection score. This is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its impressive assessments in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A for our short-term care rating. In our short-term care score, we attempt to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This nursing home offered more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Indiana in this area with 59.2 percent of its residents returning home.

We also wanted to note the fact that this facility received a top-shelf grade of A in our long-term care area. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were not able to track down this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final category we graded is nursing, where this facility received an A. This completed a very strong profile. Not many nursing homes received an A- or better in every single category. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we look at the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This place provides an incredible 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. It performed as well as any nursing home in the state in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.