Village Care Center

On top of receiving a strong overall score, this facility also received an elite long-term care grade. We gave it one of our higher scores in that category, with an A. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 84.46602 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is slightly below what we expected but still a decent percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also excelled in inspections. We gave it a grade of A- for that area. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next area we assessed was short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. In crafting our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The last area we graded is nursing. We gave this nursing home a grade of D for nursing, leaving this as the nursing home's least impressive category grade. Our nursing rating weighs several data points. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these data points to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.