Alta Mesa Health and Rehabilitation

On top of faring well overall, this facility earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in this category with an A. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor dings are not something to panic about.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing grade is largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Compounding its fine resume, this facility also was awarded a superb short-term care score, with a grade of A. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last area we scored is long-term care, in which this facility was given a grade of B-. This was this facility's least impressive category. This is still not a poor grade. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We weren't able to find this place's vaccination data. Finally, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.