The Waters of Mountain View

To go along with its impressive overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A- for our nursing grade. In calculating our nursing ratings, we assess both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home truly excelled in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Not many facilities performed better in this area. With our short-term care grade, we strive to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple relatively minor dings are not the end of the world.

The final category we looked at is long-term care, in which this facility was given a B-. Although this ended up being its lowest category grade, this is still not a bad grade. In the area of long-term care, we focus more on the amount of services offered by a facility, rather than more healthcare-oriented services. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided information on its vaccination levels. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.