Richfield a Villa Center

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A. Our nursing grade analyzes quite a few factors, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to another one of this place's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections turned out to be one of its best categories. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facilities third most favorable category was long-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this area. Our long-term care grades are more meaningful for those in need of more traditional services associated with activities of daily living. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 92.14502 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be slightly less than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. On a more positive note, this nursing home 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 number.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home was awarded a respectable short-term care score of C. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is often a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 2.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.