Blue Mountain Care Center

While this nursing home received a decent overall grade, its inspections grade is notably more impressive than its overall grade. Due to a strong government inspection report this year, it received a strong score in that area with a B+. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category grades was in the area of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. Short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours those nurses spent with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This facility provided just 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it scored well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next area we rated is long-term care, was this facility's worst category. We gave this nursing home a D in this category. This is one of just a couple of weak links in an otherwise strong profile. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We found that this nursing home provided the vaccine to just 78.94737 percent of its patients, which is a bit of a concern. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.