Vista Living of Vernon

Vista Living of Vernon is located in Vernon, Texas. This city has a total of 12,991 people. We gave it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road score. This facility seems to have some things working in its favor. This facility didn't fare well in all of our categories, but it didn't receive any terrible grades either. Additional information about these categories is available below.

The main reason this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing grade looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Inspections is another area where this facility excelled. In fact, we gave this nursing home an B+ for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than its overall grade. Inspection grades are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home received its next highest category score in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. With our short-term care rating, we endeavor to forge a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 19.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The next category we analyzed is long-term care, which was a weak spot for this nursing home. We awarded this facility a D in long-term care. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 15.079365 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points below what we expected. Unfortunately, this nursing home's hospitalization rate was also a cause for concern. Here we found that this place had 2.59 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.