Methodist Village

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This facility also excelled in the category of long-term care, with an impressive grade of A- in this category. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's next most favorable category was its short-term care grade, where it was given a C. Our short-term care scores are critical for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. It does not look like this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The last area we graded is nursing, ended up being this nursing home's least impressive area. We awarded this facility a D in that category. This is one of the couple of weak links of a quality report card. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we assess the number of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home offered a meager 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.