Legacy Village Rehabilitation

To go along with a favorable overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more important for individuals requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Moving on our third area, we gave this facility a score of A for its long-term care score. This is a very impressive rating. For patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The fourth area we analyzed is nursing, where this facility was given an A. This rounded out an elite report card. Not many nursing homes received an A- or better in in each area we assessed. The nursing rating analyzes a handful of subcategories, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.