Mount Hope Nursing Center

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a grade of B- for inspections. This score is more respectable than this place's overall score. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Sadly, this facility was hit with a category L deficiency, which is unexpected given its inspection score. These are the worst type of deficiencies. This category of deficiency indicates inspectors identified a widespread deficiency placing resident health or safety in imminent danger. Any serious deficiency is a major concern. In addition to having severe deficiencies, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. There are many factors within this grade. Most of these criteria relate to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this area. This is typically a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning residents more often.

This facility's third highest category ended up being its short-term care grade, where it received a B-. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The last area we looked at was long-term care. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of B-. In computing these long-term care ratings, we look at the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility gave the vaccine to 98.9899 percent of its residents, which is a very solid total. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.