Villa Crest

We also want to emphasize that this nursing home earned an impressive grade of A in our short-term care category. Our short-term care grades are vital for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing grade is largely based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a patient more frequently.

Turning to the fourth area, this nursing home received an extremely favorable long-term care score. We gave it a grade of A in this category, rounding out a straight A profile. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. It does not appear that this nursing home provided data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.