Town of Vici Nursing Home

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home was awarded a favorable long-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that category with a grade of B. For patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 92.517006 percent of its patients. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. There are many criteria included in this category. Most of these criteria relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides only 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. While this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed well in this subcategory. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a patient more often.

Our next category is short-term care, where we gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this category. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. It doesn't look like this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.