Villa Maria Health and Rehab Center

In addition to faring well overall, this facility also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Therefore, it earned one of our best scores in that category with an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was awarded a first-rate long-term care score. This actually turned out to be this facility's second strongest category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A-. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 97.41936 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.94 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. The nursing score assesses a handful of components, however, the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Roughly a quarter of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are among the most highly skilled nurses. Both of these figures easily beat out the national average. Finally, this facility also excelled in several quality-based metrics we looked at. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by offering better nursing care and having a policy of moving patients more frequently.

Switching gears to the last area, this facility was given a highly favorable short-term care score. Even though this was not quite as impressive as a few of its other grades, this is nevertheless one of our more impressive grades a facility can receive. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 39.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.