The Virginia Home

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this facility's other accomplishments is its elite long-term care score. We gave them one of our most impressive grades in that category, with a grade of A. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. This place is as good as it gets in this area.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of C in this category is by no means a bad score. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides only 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The last category we scored was short-term care. We awarded this nursing home an acceptable grade in that area, with a grade of C. Although this isn't as favorable as a few of this facility's other grades, it is still not the end of the world. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. It does not look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.