Vista View Care Center

To pair with its decent overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A- for our inspections rating. This score is far better than its overall score. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. We weren't able to locate deficiency data for this nursing home. Without having all of the deficiency data for this facility, it ended up being a challenge to fully assess it in terms of this category.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident more frequently.

This facility's next best area turned out to be its short-term care score, where it was given a B-. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below average.

Moving on to the last category, this nursing home was given a decent long-term care grade of C. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 93.589745 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.