Orchard Villa

This nursing home earned a short-term care score which is better than its overall score. We gave this nursing home a B+ in this area. This really helped its overall profile. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is typically a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an B+. In determining our nursing grades, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also excelled in the area of inspections. We gave it an impressive grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home was given a respectable long-term care score of C. Our long-term care grades are more important for those requiring more conventional assistance related to activities of daily living. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 97.72727 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is more than most nursing homes. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.