Cedar Mountain Post Acute

Although we gave this nursing home a terrible overall grade, we awarded it an A- for our inspections score. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Sadly, this facility's next highest score was short-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this category, it still fared somewhat badly. Short-term care scores are vital for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With a score of this caliber for this category, we were not surprised to learn that this facility was below average in many staffing figures we looked at. The nursing home supplied far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.8 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below the national average.

We were surprised to find that this nursing home also excelled in nursing. We awarded it an impressive grade of D for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Our nursing score features many subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This place averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This facility performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these datapoints to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we assessed was long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a very poor score in this area as well. We gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is definitely a major concern. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 98.449615 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.