New Vista Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Although we did not rate this facility well overall, we wanted to point out its decent health inspections in recent years. We gave it a somewhat respectable score of B- in this area. We believe that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not a bad score. The nursing score assesses several subcategories, many of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a relatively low total compared with most nursing homes. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

This nursing home received its third most favorable category grade in the category of long-term care. We awarded this facility a C in this category, which is an acceptable score. Our long-term care ratings are more critical for folks requiring more conventional services associated with activities of daily living. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to only 89.63832 percent of its patients, which is quite a bit lower than we expected. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we scored is short-term care, ended up being this facility's worst category. We gave this facility a D in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is generally a fair measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. With a score of this caliber for this area, we were not stunned to find that this place was well below average in multiple staffing figures we assess. The facility supplied significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4 percent of its residents returning home.