Village Care Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this very important area. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

We also would like to note the fact that this facility was given a high-end score of A in our short-term care category. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is considered to be a reliable measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 7.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. We assessed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place 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.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home was given a high-end long-term care score. Although this isn't nearly as good as a few of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of the more impressive scores we offer. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 90 percent of its patients. This is slightly lower than we were hoping for. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.