Quentin Mease Community Hospital

We also wanted to emphasize that this nursing home has received near flawless government inspections recently. We awarded them an A+ in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. 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.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. Nursing grades are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to our third area, this facility also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. It doesn't look like this facility provided vaccination data. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to our last area, this facility also performed well in our short-term care category. We gave it a B+ for that area. This topped off a first-rate report card. Our short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.