Mountain View Care Center

Although we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable inspections in recent years. We gave it a B+ in this area, which was much better than its overall score. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid places that have too many severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. Our nursing grade includes several datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it scored well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

The third category we graded is short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is frequently a useful assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The last area we graded is long-term care, in which this facility received a poor grade here as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is obviously very concerning. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 88.88889 percent of its residents, which is slightly concerning. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.