Mountain View Health Care

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this facility's higher category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B+. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 80.16878 percent of its residents. This is slightly less than we were hoping for. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Additionally, we gave this nursing home an F in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be more critical for people in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its weak rating in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this place provides significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next area we rated was nursing. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category, which is an abysmal grade. This is clearly a major concern. The nursing rating weighs a host of data points. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Unfortunately, this place also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hour totals. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than double the national average in this statistic.