Legacy Village Rehabilitation

To go along with its strong overall grade, we gave this place an A+ for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its impressive resume, this facility also excelled in our short-term care area. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in the area. Short-term care grades are often employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we considered in this area is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was awarded a high-end grade of A- in our long-term care area. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last area we graded was nursing, where this nursing home was given a grade of B+. This completed a very strong profile. Very few nursing homes earned a B+ or better in every category. Our nursing grade analyzes a handful of subcategories, however, the main one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.