Mason Point

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it actually earned a fairly impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our more favorable scores in that area with a grade of B. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's second best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. In determining our nursing grades, we factor in both staffing levels and the training levels of those 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. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

We gave this nursing home just a D for our long-term care grade. This is not one of our better scores. Nursing homes that don't score well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were disappointed to learn that this nursing home vaccinated only 82.43243 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

The final area we analyzed is short-term care, ended up being this facility's weakest area. We gave this facility a grade of D in this area. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Based on its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to find that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.