Villa Manor Care Center

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also performed well in our inspections category, which is based on its inspection reports. In fact, we gave it a grade of A for that area. 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 meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

We also wanted to note the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our short-term care area. In our short-term care rating, we seek to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We looked at the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we graded was long-term care. This facility was awarded an above average nursing grade in our assessment, with a grade of B. Even though this is not nearly as dominant as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of our stronger scores for that category. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 91.88034 percent of its residents, which is a bit below what we expected. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.