Senior Village Nursing Home

The main reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better scores in that category, with an A. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our inspection scores are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility performed well in the category of nursing. We gave it an B- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our nursing rating is largely associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

We also awarded this nursing home a solid grade in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is considered to be a fair measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.

The final category we graded is long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in this category. Our long-term care grades are more meaningful for residents in need of more traditional services associated with activities of daily living. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.