Senior Village Nursing Home

Senior Village Nursing Home is a small nursing home located in Perryton, Texas. We awarded this nursing home an B+ overall grade, ranking it in the top third of all facilities in the country. This facility definitely has plenty going for it. Fortunately, this nursing home did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also performed well in long-term care, where it earned a grade of A+. Few facilities fared better in this area. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.07407 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a dangerous health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave this to chance. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.25 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home also performed well in inspections, which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. We gave it a grade of A for that category. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the number of hours nurses spend with residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The next category we scored turned out to be this nursing home's weakest category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it a decent grade of C in our short-term care category. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most important for patients in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that just 20.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure is below the national average.