Mesun Health and Rehabilitation Center

This nursing home really excelled in the category of short-term care, where it earned a grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. If it wasn't for this category, this facility's overall score would have been much lower. Our short-term care scores are arguably most important for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A+. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses are with residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to another strength for this facility, we gave it a superb long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A. For residents in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 87.5 percent of its residents, which is slightly less than we were hoping for. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In our final category of inspections, this facility received a horrible grade. Unfortunately, with an F in the inspection category, this nursing home's overall grade was pulled down significantly. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection grade. We would pay close attention to the severity of those deficiencies. It doesn't appear that we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received significant government fines of more than $100,000. This usually means that a facility's bad track record has been an issue for several years.