Mireek Rehabilitation and Nursing

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this place also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A. Not many nursing homes fared better in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It performed better than most facilities in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing rating considers many factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.2 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 the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to our final category, this facility was given a respectable short-term care rating. Even though this wasn't nearly as strong as some of its other scores, this is truly not a bad grade. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.