Quentin Mease Community Hospital

On top of being a strong facility overall, it also received A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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.

Among its many impressive scores, this nursing home received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in that category. Nursing ratings are primarily based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility received a strong short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that area with a grade of B+. Our short-term care scores are thought to be most critical for patients requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this facility received an excellent long-term care rating. We awarded it a B+ in that area, finishing off one of our better profiles. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.