Regency Village

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility really outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in this category with an A. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 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 place 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.

This nursing home's next most favorable area is its long-term care grade, where it was awarded a B-. In the area of long-term care, we look at the quantity of services offered by a facility, as opposed to more sophisticated services. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated 90.78341 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit less than average. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's weakest category was short-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this area. Despite multiple respectable grades in other categories, this score is still disappointing so we would like to to point it out. Our short-term care scores are probably most important for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the measures we considered. Finally, we considered the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.