North Mountain Medical and Rehabilitation Center

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection scores are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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 facilities second best category was short-term care. We awarded it a B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this area. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.

The third best area we awarded this nursing home in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we graded is nursing. This facility received a grade of C for the category. Our nursing grade is mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is well below average. On top of ranking poorly in terms of nursing hours provided, this place also lagged behind in certain statistics that focus on quality of care. This place's nursing rating was hurt by poor performance in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers. We found that 21.413721 percent of this nursing home's patients experienced pressure ulcers. This is at least double the average nursing home.