Mountain View Convalescent Hospital

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. The nursing rating is based on a variety of factors. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below average. Lastly, nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its residents.

Moving on to the area of short-term care, this facility received a grade of just D in that area. Unfortunately, this proved to be one of its best areas. In our short-term care rating, we strive to forge a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Based on its score in this category, we weren't stunned to learn that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care grade.

Tragically, this facility received an F for its long-term care grade. For patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.38271 percent of its patients, which is higher than most nursing homes. Surprisingly, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

In our final category of inspections, this nursing home received a terrible score. We weight this grade more heavily than our other categories. With facilities that received this bad of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility had 9 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 87 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.