Senior Village Nursing Home

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A. Nursing grades are largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving residents even once per day.

This facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on its recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This facility also received a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this category. Our short-term care scores are believed to be most important for those in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage 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.

The final category we rated was long-term care. In this category, we gave this facility an acceptable grade of C. This ended up being this facility's weakest category. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility administered the vaccine to 97.26028 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable datapoint. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.