Schowalter Villa

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this facility also earned an excellent long-term care score, with an impressive grade of A. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. After looking at the significant amount of nursing hours provided by this nursing home, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 97.14286 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing score is largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provides an incredible 4.8 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this facility also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With under 5 percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is usually an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers can be prevented by offering better nursing care and a system of turning patients more frequently.

This nursing home also earned a nearly flawless government inspection report. It received one of our highest grades in that category with an A. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The fourth category we looked at is short-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of A. This wrapped up a very favorable report card. Few nursing homes earned an A- or better in every single category. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is considered to be a solid assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities with 60.4 percent of its patients returning home.