Mountain View Care Center

Even though this facility's overall score was not favorable, it earned a very good score in long-term care. We awarded it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 97.843666 percent of its residents, which is higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We were also pleasantly surprised to award this nursing home a relatively favorable health inspection rating as well. We gave it a respectable grade of B- in this category, which was much better than its overall score. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This nursing home was awarded its next highest category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this facility a C in this category, which is an acceptable score. In determining these short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The final statistic we considered in this area is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final category we rated was nursing, which is a weak spot for this nursing home. We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for nursing. In computing our nursing ratings, we analyze both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.