Springfield Villa

To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this facility an A for its inspection grade. This score is far better than its overall rating. Our inspection ratings are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government 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 note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we gave this facility an B. Our nursing grade is based on a host of datapoints. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a resident more frequently.

This nursing home's next best area was long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. Our long-term care grade focuses on a facility's personal care instead of the highly skilled nursing and healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home gave the vaccine to just 55.947136 percent of its patients. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final area we scored is short-term care. This nursing home was awarded a grade of C for this category. In forming our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.