Mission Valley Nursing and Transitional Care

The main reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that area, with an A. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We would like to have more data for this nursing home. Without having access to deficiency related data, it was a challenge to assess the place in the area of inspections.

We also awarded this facility a strong score in long-term care. This facility received a grade of B in this area, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. We do want to point out that we seem to be missing some data on this nursing home's long-term care statistics, but we were happy with the data we found.

As it turns out, this facility only earned a D for its short-term care grade, which is well below average in this category. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. With a grade this poor in this category, we weren't shocked to learn that this facility was below average in multiple staffing figures we looked at. It provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facility's weakest category was nursing, which is the last category we assessed. We gave it an F for this area. Despite some respectable grades in other categories, this grade is nevertheless disappointing so we would like to to draw your attention to it. When determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for patients and the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing ratings. Specifically, we look at the percent of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.