Orchard Villa

This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we want to note its excellent short-term care score. We gave them an A- in this category. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is considered to be a useful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also performed well in inspections. It received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that area with an B+. Few facilities with an overall score in this range performed this well in multiple categories. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing rating is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to our next area, this nursing home was awarded a respectable long-term care grade of B-. For patients in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.61496 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. This place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.