The Nm Behavioral Health Institute at Las Vegas

The Nm Behavioral Health Institute at Las Vegas is in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The city has 20,081 people. This facility received an uninspiring overall grade of D in our grading scheme. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Las Vegas. The city has just one other nursing home. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

While we gave this facility a poor overall grade, we gave it a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B-. This was certainly better than its other category grades. The nursing rating includes many subcategories. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. According to CMS records, this facility averaged 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Keep in mind that when we compute our nursing scores, we apply more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of skill. Finally, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This place was relatively weak in some of the major metrics we look at, with subpar scores for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are typically reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered.

This nursing home's short-term care grade appears to be one of its respectable grades. The facility received a B- in this category. Our short-term care grades are likely most critical for those requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.

We also awarded this nursing home a decent grade in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of B-. Long-term care grades are often used to gauge a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 97.94661 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.6 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

The last category we assessed is inspections. The facility received a grade of C in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.