Focused Care at Mount Pleasant

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but it really excelled in the area of nursing care, with an impressive grade of A- in this category. We looked at the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in calculating our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 Texas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a patient more often.

This facility's second best category is inspections. In that category, we gave this facility a B. It actually outperformed most facilities in this category. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Another one of this nursing home's higher category grades was in the area of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B. Our short-term care ratings are probably most meaningful for people requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next category we assessed was long-term care. This nursing home was given a C in this category. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 98.37838 percent of its patients against pneumonia. 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 an impressively low figure.