Mission Point of Lamont

This facility's best category grade came in our short-term care category. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B+. It actually outperformed many nursing homes in this area. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it received an B+. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

Another reason we rated this facility so highly is that it received an A+ nursing score. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. Nursing scores are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving residents more frequently.

This facility's least impressive category is long-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. In this category, we awarded this facility a grade of D. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were concerned by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated just 87.73585 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.