Mescalero Care Center

In addition to earning a great overall score, this nursing home really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes did better in this category. The nursing grade consists of several components, but the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, we gave this facility a grade of B in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our more favorable scores. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 94.91525 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also received a positive short-term care score. Indeed, we awarded them a grade of B in that area, which is one of our more favorable scores. With our short-term care rating, we try to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. 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.

The last category we assessed was inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. This ended up pulling down this facility's overall grade significantly. For facilities that received this bad of an inspection score, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Tragically, this facility was hit with several category J through L deficiencies. This indicates widespread deficiencies putting resident safety or health in immediate danger. These deficiencies are toxic to a nursing home's inspection grade. Finally, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed significant government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This generally means that a poor track record spanned more than one year.