Villa Maria Health and Rehab Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A-. Our nursing rating weighs several factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 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 state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient more often.

Moving on our next category, we gave this facility a grade of A- for our long-term care rating. This is a very strong score. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 97.23502 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last area we looked at was short-term care, where this facility was awarded a B. This actually ended up being this nursing home's weakest area. A facility is doing something right when it's lowest score still is better than most other facilities. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is often a fair measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 3.8 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.