Cityview Care Center

We want to point out that this nursing home really outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with a grade of A-. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

One of this facility's more respectable category scores came in the area of long-term care. This proved to be its second best category. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. Long-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's amount of nursing services. This includes a broad spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.55947 percent of its residents, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the number of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

This nursing home's worst area was short-term care, which is the last category we looked at. For this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is typically a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 4.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.