Villa Toscana at Cypress Woods

This facility's best category grade came in the area of short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. It outperformed many nursing homes in this category. Our short-term care scores are thought to be most important for individuals requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an B. There are several criteria included in this area. Many of the subcategories are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Next we looked at this nursing home's inspection score This is based on the facility's recent government inspections. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is a middle of the pack grade in this category. Inspection grades are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This nursing home had 6 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were category J through L deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to place resident health or safety in immediate harm or jeopardy. Overall, this inspection report certainly could be much worse.

The final area we graded was long-term care, ended up being this facility's worst area. We awarded this facility a D in this category. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.6337 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.