Mountain View Rehabilitation and Care Center

This facility earned a short-term care grade which is stronger than its overall score. We awarded this nursing home a B+ in this category. Short-term care grades are generally used to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to provide good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an B+. Nursing grades are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home did not earn a favorable inspection rating. We gave it a D in this category. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. You should be more cautious when considering a nursing home with severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This particular facility was assessed a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies identified by the government inspectors had the potential to create actual harm to residents. Lastly, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this place received significant government fines of more than $100,000. This generally suggests that a facility's bad performance spanned multiple years.

The final category we graded is long-term care. Sadly, it received an F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is obviously a significant disappointment. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.70968 percent of its residents, which is a very solid percentage. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.