The Villa at City Center

Although this nursing home's overall score was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform as badly in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B- for that area. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the amount of time nurses commit to residents as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This facility provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a somewhat concerning figure which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it scored well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

Moving on to the area of long-term care, this facility was given a grade of just D in that area. Sadly, this ended up being one of its better features. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.75777 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection grades where it received an F. This generally means we found some red flags on the inspection reports. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection rating. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home had one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by the government inspectors had the potential to create actual harm to patients. Another area of concern is that CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

The last category we graded is short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category, which is a very poor grade. In our short-term care assessment, we attempt to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. With a grade of this caliber for this area, we weren't shocked to discover this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing figures we focus on. It provided significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care score.