Villa Manor Care Center

Villa Manor Care Center is an average-sized nursing home in Denver, Colorado. Featuring an overall score of A-, this is undoubtedly a very strong facility. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top third of all nursing homes in the country. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which we will address in the next section.

In addition to receiving a quality overall score, this facility also earned excellent health inspections recently. We awarded it one of our highest grades in that area, with an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. 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.

This facility also performed well in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A. Very few nursing homes received a better grade in this area. Short-term care grades are often used to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country in this area with 65.2 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with patients, in determining our rating in this category. This nursing home averages 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we assessed was long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of C. While this wound up being its poorest category score, this is still not the end of the world. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. We were a bit worried that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 83.39223 percent of its patients. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.18 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.