The Inn at Freedom Village

One of the many reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. Short-term care ratings are crucial for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 7.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. We looked at the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this area. This facility provided 0.8 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.

Turning the page to our third category, this facility was awarded an excellent long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in that area. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided vaccination data. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. In fact, we awarded it an elite grade of A for that category. This topped off this place's straight A report card. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.