The Villa at Osseo

This nursing home's best category grade came in the area of government inspections. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it a grade of B in that category, which happens to be one of our better. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received a strong grade in our nursing category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. Our nursing score assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place 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.

The final category we graded was long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is a poor score. This is clearly a significant disappointment. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 94.140625 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.