Victorian Post Acute

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home earned an excellent inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in this category with a grade of A. Our inspection grades are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its high-end performance in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A- for its long-term care score. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Clearly we were satisfied with our findings here in this category.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home also earned a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. Short-term care grades are typically employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning to the next area, this facility was given a very strong nursing grade. While this was not nearly as elite as several of its other grades, this is still one of our better scores we offer. In calculating our nursing ratings, we weigh both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.