Village Healthcare and Rehabilitation

This place fared well in the area of long-term care, where it earned a grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. If not for this area, this place's overall score would have likely been worse. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this place 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 figure.

Inspections is another category where this facility excelled. We gave this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Next we wanted to quickly point out one of this facility's major weaknesses. In the area of nursing care, we gave this nursing home a lowly grade of F. Our nursing category is based on many components, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this place's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we graded is short-term care, which was this facility's weakest category. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category, which is clearly very disappointing. Our short-term care grades are believed to be more critical for people requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Based on its score in this area, we were not surprised to discover that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.