Presence Villa Franciscan

Presence Villa Franciscan is located in Joliet, Illinois. With an overall score of B, this looks like a good option. In fact, we found this nursing home to be better than most of the nursing homes in Joliet, which has a city grade of B-. This facility's impressive profile was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this facility fared well in short-term care. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Remarkably, this nursing home provides roughly one and a half times as many hours of services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most facilities we looked at. This is certainly an encouraging sign. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it fared as well as just about any facility with 61.4 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing scores are primarily tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. At least one fourth of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. This is a high percentage of skilled nursing care. In determining our grades, we apply additional weight to care provided by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also performed well in the category of inspections. It earned a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of B+. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This facility's least impressive category was long-term care, which is the last category we looked at. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category. Despite multiple strong scores in other areas, this grade is nevertheless somewhat alarming so we felt obligated to point it out. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated only 88.95028 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was also a cause for concern. We found that this facility had 2.27 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.