The Laurels of Charlottesville

It should be noted that this nursing home's inspection score outpaced its overall grade. We awarded it a B+ for its inspections rating, which is a very solid score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

We also gave this facility an impressive score in short-term care. This nursing home received a B+ in this category, which turns out to be one of our more impressive grades. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is often a fair measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. It does not look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final item we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next best category we awarded this nursing home in any area came in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. In a long-term care environment, 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 residents. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 62.695923 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to our last category, this nursing home was awarded a C for nursing, which is generally an acceptable score. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. While this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this metric. This is generally an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving patients more often.