Regency, a Villa Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our nursing rating. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a relatively low total compared with most facilities. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

Unfortunately, this facility's next most favorable score is long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed relatively badly. Facilities that do not score well in this category often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 93.53892 percent of its patients. This is a bit below what we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.

Unfortunately, this facility didn't receive glowing inspections in recent years. We gave it a grade of just D for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings factor in many items found on the facility's inspection reports. When you find too many deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is typically the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This facility was hit with 7 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, we would like to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This usually indicates that a nursing home's bad performance has been an issue for more than one year.

The final area we scored is short-term care. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is a rock bottom grade. Our short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Based on its abysmal score in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility offered significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.