Las Ventanas Retirement Comm Snf

Las Ventanas Retirement Comm Snf is a small non-profit nursing home located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Featuring an overall score of A, this is clearly a first-rate facility. In fact, this facility has the distinction of being one of the top five nursing homes in Nevada. This place also received very consistent scores in all of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about these categories is available below.

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. This nursing home is substantially above the national average in terms of its quantity of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. In fact, it provided about 50% more care per resident from both of these care providers than the average facility provided. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Nevada in this area with 71.5 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

In addition, this facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. There are a variety of factors within this category. Most of these subcategories relate to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Very few nursing homes provide this quantity of nursing care to their patients. Out of this total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing high levels of care, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection grades are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care. We awarded this facility one of our more favorable grades in this area, with a B. Although this is not as dominant as a few of its other scores, it is nevertheless an excellent score. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to offering elite levels of nursing care, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This percentage is also significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. The last datapoint we looked at is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. While it had 2.87 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was close to the national average since it had more complicated patients.