The Villages of St Peters

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, this place was hit with a category L deficiency, which is unexpected given its inspection grade. These are the most concerning deficiencies. This category indicates CMS found a widespread deficiency placing resident health or safety in imminent danger. Any serious deficiency is a major concern. In spite of this major red flag, other aspects of this facility's inspection report gave us some hope.

This nursing home also performed well in the area of short-term care. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that area, which is one of our most impressive grades. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This proved to be a real strength for this facility. It outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 61 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

An additional reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing score is based on numerous datapoints. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls which lead to major injury, this nursing home performed better than the national average.

This nursing home's weakest area is long-term care, which is the last area we assessed. For this category, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to providing respectable levels of nursing care and other staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 96.82997 percent of its patients. These scores are clearly more favorable than several of its other data points in this category. To our surprise, this place also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.69 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.