Village Villa

Village Villa is a small government-owned nursing home located in Nortonville, Kansas. With an overall rating of D, this is a relatively poor nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Nortonville. The best thing we can say about this nursing home is that it didn't receive any F's in in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

While we were not very complementary of this facility's overall score, it received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively minor. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

We also awarded this facility a grade of B- for our nursing rating. Our nursing rating is mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also considered some quality-based metrics. This place fared well in some of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility outpaced the national average. This is often an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented with better nursing care.

This facility's next most favorable area came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. This facility's vaccination records were not as impressive as its nursing hours. It administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 71.32353 percent of its residents. We would love to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. This nursing home didn't excel here either, with 3.49 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this figure is somewhat concerning, this statistic can be skewed for some facilities due to the medical complexity of residents.

Turning to our last category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D in our short-term care category. This was the facility's worst category rating. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most critical for patients in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. With a grade of this caliber for this category, we were not stunned to learn this place was well below average in two of the key staffing areas we looked at. It supplied significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 34 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.