The Village Healthcare Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This place provides an incredible 6.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Out of this total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing high levels of nursing care, this place was also above average in several of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. It performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility received quality marks in the area of short-term care. For this reason, it received one of our best grades in that area with a grade of A+. Our short-term care scores are presumably most critical for residents needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. This facility offers more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in California with 72.6 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home also received excellent inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best grades in that category, with an A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

The next area we rated is long-term care. This facility was given a better than average long-term care grade in our assessment, with a B-. Even though this wasn't nearly as elite as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless an acceptable grade in that area. In forming our long-term care grades, we look at the facility's personal care services. One of the data points we considered after this facility's quality nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.27586 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to minimize negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.