Meadowview Healthcare and Rehab

This nursing home earned a strong overall grade as discussed above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent nursing grade. We awarded them an A- in this category. Our nursing grade analyzes a handful of subcategories, but the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning residents even once per day.

This facility also received an impressive short-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this area. Our short-term care grades are likely most important for patients needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility also received favorable inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor dings aren't the end of the world.

Our final area is long-term care, in which we awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in this category. In our long-term care grade, we weigh the sheer quantity of care provided by a nursing home, along with a series of quality data points. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 98.81657 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.