Desert View Care Center of Buhl

Part of the reason this nursing home performed well overall is it fared well in the area of inspections, with a B+ in that area. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Our nursing rating is largely associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a resident at least once a day.

This nursing home received a strong long-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our higher grades in that category with a grade of B. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.3421 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last category we assessed was short-term care. We gave this facility one of our better scores in that category, with a B. This facility ended up being relatively strong in each category we looked at. In our short-term care grade, we seek to create a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.