North Las Vegas Care Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

This nursing home's second most respectable score is long-term care, but it nevertheless earned a grade of just D in that category. This turns out to be a well below average grade. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 47.940075 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be significantly lower than what we expected. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. Our nursing rating focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Switching gears to our final category, this facility didn't fare very well here either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.