Palm Vista Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

On top of receiving a solid overall grade, this nursing home also earned a strong inspection grade, which is based on its recent government inspections. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this 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+. Nursing ratings are largely associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility is also above average in the area of short-term care, where it was given a grade of B. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this category. Our short-term care ratings are vital for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The last category we graded was long-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B. This nursing home proved to be very solid across the board. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 94.08284 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life threatening health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.