Mountain Vista Health Center

To go along with its decent overall score, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Our nursing rating consists of a handful of factors, but the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a resident even once per day.

This nursing home's second best category is inspections. In that area, we gave this facility a B. It actually outperformed most facilities in this category. Our inspection grades account for several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This nursing home also was given an impressive score in our short-term care category. We awarded this nursing home a better than average grade of B in that area. Our short-term care grade is often employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Moving on to the last category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D for long-term care. This is the nursing home's weakest category rating. Naturally, this category hurt the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.17127 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.