Mira Vista Care Center
300 South 18th Street, Mount Vernon WA 98274 · (360) 424-1320 · 89.25% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Mira Vista Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Mount Vernon, Washington. We gave this nursing home an overall score of F. At the end of the day, you'd be better off to steer clear of this place. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, we will discuss nursing in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 94 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that category. Nursing ratings are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility offers 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, of which more than an hour of those were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. We add quite a bit of weight to these skilled nursing hours in determining our nursing grades. Finally, we also considered quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home was above average in several of the major areas we assessed, including minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These statistics are sometimes good measures of the quality of nursing care offered.
Short-term Care Quality
Surprisingly, we gave this facility a grade of B- for our short-term care score, which is not too bad of a score. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more critical for individuals needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home is above average in terms of its volume of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. The final metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that it performed better than most nursing homes in this area with 50.8 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
Another concern is the F this nursing home received in the category of long-term care. For patients looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 94.308945 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 1.72 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic wasn't bad since it had more complicated patients.
Facility Inspections
Moving on our final category of inspections, this nursing home received a terrible score. For facilities with bad inspection scores, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This particular facility was hit with a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by the government inspectors had potential to cause actual harm to residents. Another red flag is that CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mira Vista Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric may be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for treating several conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents who were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients showing signs of depression. Increased rates of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percent of long-term residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better