Mountain Villa Nursing Center

This nursing home really performed well in the category of long-term care, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. If it wasn't for this grade, this nursing home's overall score would have likely been worse. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.484276 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also wanted to emphasize this place's nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was awarded an F in the area of short-term care. Sadly, this is a terrible score. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home did not fare well. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this was this facility's poorest area. There are a host of data points included in this category. Many of these factors are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is an alarmingly low total. On top of its weak nursing hours, this place also received poor scores in many of the quality-based measures we considered in computing our nursing scores. We found that a higher percentage of this nursing home's patients experienced falls which led to major injury. We would argue that many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this facility receiving a terrible nursing grade.