Mission View Health Center is a large nursing home located in San Luis Obispo, California. After receiving an A overall grade, this nursing home has the prestigious distinction of being one of the 100 best nursing homes in California. This is an impressive accomplishment in a state with a long list of elite facilities. This is really as good of a place as you're going to find. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's exemplary report card is its inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Mission View Health Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
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Facility Inspections
To pair with its favorable overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for inspections. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report, which is still very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Adding to its top-shelf resume, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care area. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that area. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Nurse Quality
Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. The nursing category consists of many components, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home 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 many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning residents at least once a day.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the final category, this facility received a highly favorable short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an A in this category, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mission View Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Mission View Health Center, 5.17% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Mission View Health Center, 0.32% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Falls are often caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Mission View Health Center, 0.33% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often caused by worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Mission View Health Center, 25% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Mission View Health Center, 23.01% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Mission View Health Center, 0% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who are showing signs of depression. High rates of depression may indicate a less hospitable environment.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Mission View Health Center, 100% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Mission View Health Center, 2.56% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Mission View Health Center, 2.93% of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Many would argue that mobility is critical to patients mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Mission View Health Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Mission View Health Center, 2.93% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Mission View Health Center, 17.19% of Patients
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Mission View Health Center, 84.06% of Resident
This is the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of independence with activities of daily living typically correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- French Hospital Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.12 miles away1911 Johnson Ave San Luis Obispo California 93401Voluntary non-profit - Private(805) 543-5353
- Sierra Vista Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.36 miles away1010 Murray St San Luis Obispo California 93405Proprietary(850) 546-7600
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita-San Luis Obispo Dialysis1.57 miles away1043 Marsh Street San Luis Obispo California 93401Dialysis Stations: 20 (805) 543-1013
- Davita-Casa St Home Training2.49 miles away35 Casa Street, Suite 110 San Luis Obispo California 93405Dialysis Stations: 5 (805) 785-0321
- Davita-Pismo Beach Dialysis8.51 miles away320 James Way, Suite 110 Pismo Beach California 93449CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 14 (805) 556-0577