Mercy Living Plus

In addition to being a great nursing home overall, it also received A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections were nearly perfect. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an B+. There are numerous factors within this category. Many of the criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to another strength for this facility, we gave them one of our more positive grades in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is typically a reliable assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The next category we assessed was long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a very good nursing score this year, with a B. Even though this isn't nearly as good as many of its other scores, this remains one of the more favorable scores for that area. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.85058 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.