Avantara Mountain View

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality nursing home is that it earned a very impressive inspection rating. Inspections is its best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an A. Our inspection scores are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its profile, this nursing home also earned a score of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this area. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 88.68613 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our more favorable scores in our short-term care category as well, with a B. Short-term care scores are crucial for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The final category we scored is nursing. In that category, we gave this facility a favorable grade of B. Our nursing rating weighs quite a few subcategories, but the primary one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.