Montezuma Health Care Center

To pair with its favorable overall performance, we awarded this place a grade of A+ for the area of inspections. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among the reasons we rated this facility so favorably is that it was awarded a very impressive long-term care grade. In fact, long-term care ended up being its second most impressive category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A-. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 86.84211 percent of its patients. This is a few points below what we anticipated but still a reasonably acceptable figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facilities third best area was short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the pack grade in this area. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this nursing home. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

The final area we scored is nursing. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of C. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a relatively low total compared with most other nursing homes. Finally, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percentage of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are indicators of the quality of nursing care.