Monterey Healthcare & Wellness Centre

This nursing home received a nursing score which is stronger than its overall grade. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in this area. There are quite a few datapoints within this category. Many of the datapoints reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident more often.

This facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed as well in this category. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Additionally, we also would like to point out that this nursing home was awarded impressive long-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that area, with a grade of B. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a deadly ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we assessed is short-term care, proved to be this facility's weakest category. We gave this facility a D in that area. This really was one of the couple of weak points in an otherwise impressive profile. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we considered. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 2.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.