Buena Vida Continuing Care & Rehab Center

To pair with its decent overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for its inspection grade. This is far better than the facility's overall score. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the 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 of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was awarded a great long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it one of our most favorable grades in this area with a grade of A-. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 85.41423 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat below what we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility also received a strong nursing rating. We gave it a score of F in this area. Our nursing grade weighs several datapoints, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This facility's weakest category was short-term care, which is the final category we assessed. It received a lowly F for this area. Even with some respectable grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless concerning so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Given its grade in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.