Mission Nursing Home

To pair with its strong overall grade, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for the area of inspections. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this category. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. It does not appear that this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. When computing our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient at least once a day.

The last area we graded is long-term care, where we gave it a strong grade of B. This nursing home really did not have any weak grades. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 94.94949 percent of its patients, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.