Mill Valley Care Center

This facility received an inspection score which is stronger than its overall grade. Inspection grades are based on a nursing home's recent inspections. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in this area. Inspection ratings are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in nursing. This facility earned a grade of B in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our nursing score is largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home 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 B in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our more favorable scores. In our short-term care assessment, we seek to craft a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The final area we rated was long-term care, proved to be this facility's weakest area. We gave this facility a D in this category. This really is one of just a few dings in a strong report card. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means the nursing home didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 87.77778 percent of its residents. This is significantly lower than what we expected. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.