The Villa at Evergreen Park

Even though we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of B for our short-term care rating. This grade is much more impressive than its overall score. In fact, without this category, its profile would have been even worse. Our short-term care ratings are probably more important for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 5.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of B-. There are numerous datapoints included in this category. Most of these factors are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

We gave this facility just a D for our long-term care rating. This is not one of our better scores. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We found that this nursing home vaccinated only 56.451614 percent of its residents, which is not a very encouraging sign. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.06 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

Turning our last category of inspections, this nursing home received an F here. Since this information is collected by independent government inspectors, we heavily weight negative feedback in this area. For places that received this poor of an inspection score, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received large government fines in recent years amounting to more than $100,000. This generally means that a bad performance spanned several years.