Liberty Village

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

As it turns out, this facility only earned a D for its long-term care rating, which was actually one of its more respectable category scores. Nursing homes that do not score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 80.34682 percent of its patients. This is quite a bit lower than what we expected. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. There are numerous factors within this area. Most of these criteria relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we rated was short-term care, where this nursing home received a very poor grade here as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area, which is obviously somewhat alarming. In forming our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Given its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below average.