Mission Care Center

In addition to having a decent overall rating, we also would like to point out that this facility received favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better grades in that category, with a grade of B+. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection ratings are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's second most favorable area was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this area. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing rating analyzes quite a few subcategories, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below average. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

This facility's weakest category is long-term care, which is the final category we assessed. We gave it an abysmal F for this category. In spite of several decent scores in other areas, this grade is still concerning so we felt obligated to make a note of it. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.