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 short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be more important for those needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

In our last category, this nursing home also was given an excellent long-term care score, with a B+. This rounded out a first-rate profile. For patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home provided vaccination data. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.