Scotia Village-Snf

On top of being a strong facility overall, it also received A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections are nearly flawless. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a score of A+ for its long-term care grade. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, 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. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place 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.

In the last category we graded, this facility received a very strong grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this score, the nursing home completed a straight A report card. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is typically a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.