Rosegate Village

Rosegate Village is in Indianapolis, Indiana. This city is among the largest metropolitan areas in the nation with has a total of 910,148 people. This nursing home received a grade of B overall. We found this nursing home to be better than the majority of the facilities in Indianapolis, which has a city grade of B-. Even in a city with 49 nursing homes, this one ought to be a perfectly acceptable choice. This place's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

On top of earning a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed even better in our inspections category which is associated with the nursing home's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for this category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was given impressive marks in the area of long-term care as well. In fact, we awarded it one of our most favorable grades in that category with a score of A-. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 84.76821 percent of its patients. This is a bit lower than we expected but still a decent figure. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Although it had 2.29 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most nursing homes since it had some more complex patients.

This nursing home also received a favorable short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this category. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more critical for those in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Indiana in this area with 60.4 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

The final category we graded is nursing. We awarded this facility a grade of D for the area of nursing, making this the nursing home's worst category grade. Nursing scores are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. While this nursing home's nursing hours are below average, it actually surprised us in a few of the qualitative statistics in this category. In particular, we were pleased to see that its residents are sustaining fewer pressure ulcers than most nursing homes.