The Village at Rockville

On top of earning a strong overall score, this nursing home also earned an elite short-term care grade. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of A. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, it earned a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. It received one of our best scores in that area with an B+. Few facilities with an overall score in this range performed as well in multiple categories. Our inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's inspections. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category typically 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. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and 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 safety or health. A few minor dings aren't the end of the world.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. The nursing grade includes a handful of datapoints, but the most important one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we rated is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded an above average long-term care rating this year, with a B-. While this is not nearly as impressive as several of its other grades, this is still a decent rating in this category. Long-term care grades are generally used to grade a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 87.864075 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.