Mocho Park Care Center

In addition to receiving an elite overall score, this facility earned an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was superb in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Only a select group of nursing homes fared better in this category. Our short-term care scores are arguably most meaningful for people in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facility also was given a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, this turned out to be this nursing home's third strongest category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life threatening health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the final category we looked at, this facility received an impressive grade grade of A- in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home wrapped up a straight A report card. Nursing scores are tied to nurse staffing levels. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.