Lancia Villa Royale

On top of faring well in its overall grade, this nursing home earned an excellent inspection report. Consequently, we gave it one of our best scores in this area with a grade of A. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its strong achievements in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care rating. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also was given a strong short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this category. Our short-term care scores are thought to be most important for those in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home received an extremely favorable nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a B+ in that category, rounding out one of our more favorable profiles. Our nursing rating includes quite a few data points, many of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.