Westminster Village - West Lafayette

Westminster Village - West Lafayette is a small non-profit facility located in West Lafayette, Indiana. It looks like this nursing home is one of the best nursing homes we looked at. Receiving an A+ in our rating system requires superb marks across the board. In fact, this proved to be the highest graded nursing home in the city. We also gave this nursing home phenomenal scores in each of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is typically a solid assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Indiana in this area with 76.9 percent of its patients returning home. At most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

This facility also was strong in the category of long-term care, where it received a score of A. Very few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 94.19643 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.5 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our inspection ratings are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our final area, this nursing home also was given a first-rate nursing score, with an A-. This rounded out a very strong report card. Our nursing grade consists of a handful of data points, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provides an incredible 4.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.