Villa Maria

This facility's best category grade came in the category of government inspections. In this area, we gave this nursing home a B+. It outperformed most facilities in this category. Inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive long-term care score. Indeed, we gave it a grade of B in that category, which happens to be one of our better. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.43503 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another one of this nursing home's better category scores was in the area of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Our final category is nursing, where we gave this facility a B- in that area. Our nursing score looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. While this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this metric. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a resident more frequently.