Mimbres Memorial Nursing Home

In addition to earning a strong overall rating, this nursing home fared even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent inspection reports. We awarded it an A for this area, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection ratings are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Contributing to its profile, this facility also received a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this area. In our short-term care grade, we try to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. The nursing grade includes several subcategories. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to our fourth category, this nursing home was given a respectable long-term care rating. Although this isn't nearly as elite as several of its other scores, this is still not a bad grade. In calculating our long-term care scores, we look at the facility's personal care services. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 97.333336 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.