The Villa at Osseo

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality facility is that it received a very impressive short-term care grade. Short-term care turned out to be its best category. In that area, we awarded this facility an impressive grade of A-. Our short-term care scores are vital for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. There are a host of criteria within this grade. Many of the factors relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.

Moving on to our fourth area, we gave this nursing home a D in our long-term care category. This was the nursing home's weakest category grade. Unfortunately, this category hurt the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 96.32653 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.