Vista Grande Villa

In addition to faring well overall, this facility received high marks in the area of short-term care as well. It received our highest grade in that category with an A+. Our short-term care grade is typically used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A few relatively minor dings aren't something to panic about.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. There are numerous factors within this grade. Many of the factors relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we analyzed proved to be this nursing home's worst area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it an acceptable grade of C for our long-term care category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.