Village on the Green

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared this well in this area. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This high end facility also dominated in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A+. Very few nursing homes fared better in this area. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home also was awarded a dominant short-term care score. This actually is this facility's third most impressive category score. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A. In our short-term care grade, we endeavor to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Switching gears to the final area, this facility also performed well in the nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A- in that category. This topped off truly elite profile. We analyzed the licensure of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses spent with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.