Westside Retirement Village
8616 W 10th St, Indianapolis IN 46234 · (317) 209-2800 · 67.87% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Westside Retirement Village is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, which features quite a few nursing homes. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road score. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Indianapolis. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was short-term care, which is addressed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 132 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
This facility excelled in the category of short-term care, with an A in this area. Short-term care scores are important for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in the nation in this area with 65.9 percent of its residents returning home. Most places are below 50 percent in this area.
Facility Inspections
We also want to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of B+ in this area. Our inspection grades are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.
Nurse Quality
We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. The nursing grade includes many subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also considered some quality-based measures. This nursing home scored well in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place beat the national average.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to our next area, this nursing home really didn't fare well. Due to a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is this nursing home's worst category. 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. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 35.19737 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.38 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Westside Retirement Village Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who suffer from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents that have sustained a fall which caused major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who suffered from UTI's. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Many in the industry argue that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better