Westland, a Villa Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that category. There are a number of datapoints within this category. Many of these subcategories are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, nursing scores also consider quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. More often than not, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. For places with bad inspection ratings, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular nursing home had 10 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we want to point out that this facility was assessed large government fines in recent years amounting to more than $100,000. This usually indicates that a bad performance has been an issue for more than one year.

This facility ended up receiving a a very poor grade in our short-term care area. It was given an F in this category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Considering its score in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.

The next area we graded is long-term care. We gave it an F for this category, which is a rock bottom score. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 64.052284 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit less than what we expected. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.