Scottsdale Village Square

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. When calculating our nursing ratings, we weigh both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 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 often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively minor. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Moving on our third category, we awarded this nursing home a score of A- for our short-term care rating. This is a very strong rating. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The final category we assessed was long-term care, in which this facility received a B-. This actually proved to be this facility's least impressive area. This is still not a major area of concern. Long-term care grades assess a nursing home's assistance with daily living instead of the highly skilled therapy and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 86.09467 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this place keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.