St Joseph Villa

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this place also excelled in inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its first-rate profile, this nursing home also received an excellent short-term care grade, with a grade of A. Our short-term care ratings are probably most important for individuals needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home also was given a impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, this turned out to be its third best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A-. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 95.61905 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next area we analyzed was nursing, where this nursing home received a B-. Even though this turned out to be its least impressive category grade, this is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the number of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider some quality-focused statistics. We look at the percentage of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care, since superior care can reduce these problems.