The Village at Victory Lakes

On top of receiving a great overall score, this nursing home also earned an excellent short-term care grade, with an impressive grade of A. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Inspection grades are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing grades are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we analyzed is long-term care. This nursing home received a favorable long-term care grade in our assessment, with a B-. While this was not quite as impressive as several of its other grades, this remains a decent grade in this area. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 97.19101 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.