Reo Vista Healthcare Center

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection scores are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

One of this nursing home's higher category scores was in the area of short-term care. This proved to be its second most respectable category. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B-. Our short-term care scores are probably most important for residents needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

We also awarded this nursing home a middle of the road score in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last category we rated is nursing. We gave this nursing home a C in this category. The nursing score assesses many subcategories, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below average. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this statistic. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a resident more frequently.