Village Point

In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you 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.

We also awarded this facility a score of A+ for its long-term care grade. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 98.62543 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The third category we looked at is short-term care. This nursing home also received an A+ short-term care grade, making it one of the few facilities to be awarded several A+ category scores. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

In the final category we analyzed, this nursing home received a very favorable grade of A in our nursing category. With this score, the facility topped off a straight A report card. In computing our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.