St. Joseph's Villa

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items 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.

Additionally, this facility also received favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. In fact, we gave it one of our stronger grades in that category, with a score of B. Our short-term care grades are probably most critical for folks needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility was given a strong long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that area with a grade of B. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last category we analyzed is nursing, in which we awarded it a strong grade of B. This nursing home really did not have any weaknesses. We looked at the licensure of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.