Mimbres Memorial Nursing Home

In addition to earning a strong overall score, this facility performed well in our short-term care category. We awarded it an impressive grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our short-term care grade is often used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning to another one of this place's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections proved to be one of its best categories. We awarded this nursing home an A-. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

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. In determining our nursing scores, we weigh both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final area we assessed was this facility's worst category. However, even in its worst category we still awarded it a decent grade of B- for our long-term care category. Our long-term care scores are more important for patients needing more conventional services related to activities of daily living. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.21875 percent of its patients. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.