Mission Village Living Center

On top of having a decent overall grade, we also wanted to point out that this facility received favorable nursing marks this year. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. This proved to be the facility's top grade. Nursing ratings are primarily tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a patient at least once a day.

In addition, we awarded this facility a grade of B in our short-term care category. This is one of our higher grades. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Moving on to our inspection category, we gave this facility a D, which wasn't one of this facility's better scores. Our inspection grade is based on the nursing home's government inspections. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. Generally, you should be especially cautious when considering a facility that has severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This nursing home had one deficiency on its inspection report. We were relieved to find that it was not in one of the categories that suggest that it created a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, we also want to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines in recent years totaling over $100,000. This usually indicates that a bad track record spanned multiple years.

The final area we looked at is long-term care, which turned out to be this facility's weakest category. We gave this facility a D in this area. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this facility gave the vaccine to a relatively low 80.30303 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.