The Village at Orchard Ridge

In addition to being a strong facility overall, it also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections are nearly flawless. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating consists of several datapoints, many of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving a patient more often.

The third category we analyzed was short-term care. This nursing home performed remarkably in our short-term care rating as well. We gave them an exemplary score of A+ in this category. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final category we graded is long-term care, where this facility received an A. This completed a very favorable profile. Only a select few nursing homes earned an A- or better in every category. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 63.636364 percent of its residents. This is slightly below what we anticipated. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.