Mesun Health and Rehabilitation Center

This facility really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received an impressive grade of A. Few facilities fared better in this area. If it wasn't for this category, this nursing home's overall score would have been much worse. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

An additional strength of this nursing home is its very impressive score in long-term care. We awarded it one of our most impressive grades in that category, with a grade of A-. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 73.17073 percent of its patients, which is somewhat lower than we anticipated. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing care, with an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In the last category of inspections, this ended up being this facility's weakest link. Inspection ratings are based on a facility's recent government inspection reports. We gave this facility just a D in this category, which is a very weak grade. One of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Lastly, we would like to point out that this place received large government fines in recent years totaling over $100,000. This generally means that a facility's poor performance spanned more than one year.