Mission Care Center

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also received top notch health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that area, with an A+. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home really excelled in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Very few facilities performed more favorably in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of C in this category is by no means a bad score. We assessed the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This place provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.

The last area we rated was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this category. Our short-term care grades are critical for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.