Indiana Veterans Home

One of the many reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In this area, we awarded this facility an A-. There are quite a few subcategories within this area. Most of the factors are tied to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning residents more frequently.

Among its many impressive scores, this facility received first-rate short-term care grade. In fact, it received a grade of A- in this area. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is more often than not a solid measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In addition, this nursing home also earned excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best scores in that category, with an A-. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

The next category we graded was long-term care. This facility was given an above average nursing rating this year, with a grade of B. While this wasn't nearly as strong as many of its other category grades, this remains one of the more favorable scores for that area. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.401825 percent of its residents, which is far higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.