Virginia Home

Virginia Home is a nursing home located in Richmond, Virginia which has 364,141 people. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B+. A score in this range requires above average marks in most areas. Even in a city offering 10 other nursing homes, this facility really stands out. This place is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

We also found that this nursing home excelled in long-term care. We awarded them a grade of A+ in this category. Facilities that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of offering very impressive levels of nursing care, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.80695 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. 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.

This facility also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, it earned a nearly flawless inspection report this year. It received one of our best scores in that area with a score of A. Few nursing homes with an overall score in this range performed as well in multiple categories. Our inspection scores are tied to items found on the a nursing home's inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider 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 an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. There are many datapoints within this area. Most of the factors are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an impressive figure which typically correlates with higher quality care. Finally, this place also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it fared as well as any facility the state when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care offered.

The final area we scored is short-term care, where this nursing home was given a C. Even though this ended up being its worst category grade, this is still not a major area of concern. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This category is often a fair assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below average.