Village at Northrise (the) - Desert Willow I

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this nursing home really excelled in our short-term care category, where it received an A. Short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 6.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A. Nursing ratings are largely associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility 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 New Mexico in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving patients more frequently.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This is a very respectable nursing score. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The next area we rated was long-term care, in which this facility received a grade of B-. Although this ended up being its weakest category rating, this is nevertheless not a terrible score. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's assistance with daily living rather than the highly skilled therapy or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.