Vista Post Acute

To go along with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than its overall rating. Our inspection scores are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate deficiency data for this nursing home. Without the deficiency related data for this nursing home, it was difficult to grade the place in this category.

Moving on to the area of long-term care, this facility received just a D in this category. Sadly, this ended up being one of its best areas. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. Unfortunately, it looks like we are missing some of this nursing home's long-term care data. Without having access to all of the data for this facility, it is challenging to assess it in terms of this category.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. The nursing rating assesses many factors, but the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Turning to the last area, this facility did not perform very well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this was this facility's weakest category grade. In forming our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.