Villa Rosa Nursing and Rehabilitation

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility really excelled in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Very few nursing homes performed more favorably in this category. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next area we graded was long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a very positive long-term care score, with a grade of B in the area. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 89.01099 percent of its residents. This is somewhat lower than we expected. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we graded was nursing, in which this facility was given a C. While this is its worst category score, this is still a middle of the pack score. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are caring for patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Although this facility did not have as many nursing hours per resident as many of the other nursing homes we assessed, it was still better than average in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator of how carefully a nursing home's nursing staff is tending to its patients. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.