Westminster Village Muncie

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in our short-term care rating, where it earned an A. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Contributing to its high-end assessment, this facility also was awarded an excellent long-term care score, with a grade of A. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 87.951805 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is slightly less than we expected but still a decent figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our final area, this facility also was awarded an excellent nursing rating, with an A-. This finished off an elusive straight A profile. We assessed the skill-level of nurses at the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.