Rolling Green Village

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. When calculating a facility's nursing grade, we assess the amount of time nurses commit to patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning patients even once per day.

We also wanted to alert you to the fact that this nursing home performed remarkably in our short-term care category. We gave them an elite grade of A+ in this category. Our short-term care scores are likely most critical for residents needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 6.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next category we assessed was long-term care. Adding to its high-end resume, this facility also excelled in that category. In fact, it received a of A in that area. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 97.74436 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to inspections, it appears this facility has received quality government inspections in recent years as well. We gave it a B in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.