Mission Point of Lamont

We gave this facility one of our better scores in nursing, with an A-. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our nursing score is mostly tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of moving a patient more frequently.

In addition, we awarded this facility a B+ in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our more favorable grades. Our short-term care grades are arguably most important for individuals needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home received its third best score in the area of inspections. Inspection grades are based on a nursing home's recent government inspection reports. We gave this facility a C in this area. Inspection grades are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were category G through L deficiencies. This tells you this facility dodged the more serious categories of deficiencies. We didn't find anything on this nursing home's inspection reports to be too concerning.

Moving on to the fourth area, this facility received a grade of C for long-term care, which is an acceptable grade. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.23009 percent of its patients, which is better than the average nursing home. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.