The Inn at Freedom Village

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ in short-term care. This is as good as it gets in this area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Nursing ratings are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We gave this nursing home an A for inspections. Inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Turning to our last area, this facility was awarded an extremely favorable long-term care score. While this was not nearly as impressive as a few of its other scores, this is still one of our more impressive scores a facility can receive. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were not able to find this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.