The Waters of Mountain View

The Waters of Mountain View is an average-sized facility in Mountain View, Arkansas. With an overall score of B, this nursing home is a fine option. This nursing home definitely has plenty working in its favor. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive profile was its nursing grade. Nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in nursing, where it received an A-. Nursing grades are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was above the national average. Lastly, this place also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. It performed as well as any facility the state in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

In addition, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of B+. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

The third area we analyzed was short-term care. This facility received a very positive short-term care score, with a grade of B+ in this area. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Switching gears to the last area, this nursing home was given a C for long-term care, which is an acceptable score. In determining our long-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's personal care services. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down this place's vaccination data. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.