Mount Vernon Health Care Center

This nursing home's overall score was propped up by the fact that it has earned favorable health inspections in recent years. We awarded them a strong score in that category, with a B+. This is a notably better score than the nursing home's overall grade. Inspection scores are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. There are a number of factors within this grade. Most of the factors are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

We also awarded this facility a respectable score in the area of short-term care, with a C. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is more often than not a meaningful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

This nursing home's worst category is long-term care, which is the final category we looked at. For this area, we gave this nursing home a D. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. Once we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated only 80.26316 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.