Meridian Care Monte Vista

Meridian Care Monte Vista is in the densely populated metropolitan area of San Antonio, Texas with a population of 1,585,405 people. This nursing home proved to be a grade A facility, which is a superb score. Even in a city with 64 nursing homes, this facility stood out. Headlining this place's exemplary profile is its long-term care rating, which we will address in the next paragraph.

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them a grade of A+ in this area. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the datapoints we considered after this nursing home's impressive nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.2036 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. There are a variety of subcategories included in this category. Many of these datapoints are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which was among the better figures we found. Finally, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 10 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on to our final area, this facility also excelled in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it an A- for this area. This topped off a straight A profile. Short-term care scores are important for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Remarkably, this nursing home provides its patients at least 50% more physical therapist hours per week than a typical nursing home. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.