Mission Care Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with an A-. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility also was given a strong short-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we gave them a B+ in that area, which is one of our better. Our short-term care grade is often employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Remarkably, this facility provides its residents with at least 50% more physical therapist hours per week than the average facility. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 55 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. In determining our nursing scores, we assess both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular facility provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which was among the more impressive figures we found. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the percentage of its residents sustaining falls leading to serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any facility in the nation. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final area we looked at is long-term care, which proved to be this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a D in that area. Unfortunately, this category hurt the nursing home's overall grade a bit. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's 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 assessing nursing hours provided by this facility, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. With a long-term care grade in this range, we were pleasantly surprised to discover that this facility performed reasonably well both of these statistics. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than many nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.