Village Green Health and Rehabilitation

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall score is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that area, with an A+. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining 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. Based on this, we still had a generally favorable view of this facility's recent inspections.

In addition, we also would like to point out that this facility was awarded impressive short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a grade of B. This proved to be the nursing home's second highest grade. Short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes with 58.4 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility an impressive grade of D. Our nursing category consists of many components, most of which are based on nursing hours. Quantity of nursing care does not appear to be the source of this facility's poor nursing grade. This facility provides 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is above average. In computing our scores, we apply more weight to hours performed by highly trained nurses such as registered nurses. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this facility was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic pulled down this facility's nursing grade substantially.

This facility's least impressive area was long-term care, which is the final area we scored. It received a lowly F for this area. Even with multiple solid grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless disappointing so we would like to to draw your attention to it. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 93.0131 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we anticipated but still a decent figure. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.43 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.