Mission Hills Post Acute Care

Mission Hills Post Acute Care is a small facility located in San Diego, California. This facility was awarded an A- overall, which is among the highest grades that we offer. A score of this caliber requires superb marks across the board. San Diego offers a slew of nursing homes, however, we doubt you will need to check out too many others. This one looks like a very fine option. The best aspect of this facility's strong profile is its short-term care score. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great facility is that it received a strong short-term care grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home an A. With our short-term care grade, we seek to craft a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes with 56.7 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Nursing grades are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a better than average nursing grade this year, with a grade of B. Even though this isn't nearly as strong as some of its other category grades, this is still one of the more favorable grades in that category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.