Acacia Park Nursing & Rehab Center

Acacia Park Nursing & Rehab Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Modesto, California. Featuring an overall score of C, this appears to be a decent facility. This grade is not too far off the city grade for Modesto, which is a B-. The best part of this facility's report card is its stellar inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This nursing home also performed well in the area of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a score of A- in that category, which happens to be one of our highest grades. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. The last statistic we looked at is its hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 1.97 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is middle of the pack in this area.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we gave this nursing home an F. This is certainly not one of this facility's better areas. Our nursing rating weighs a handful of subcategories, many of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric.

This facility's least impressive area was short-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. We gave it a lowly F in this area. Even with multiple acceptable grades in other areas, this grade is nevertheless concerning so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is often a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Given its abysmal grade in this category, we were not stunned to find this nursing home provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 30.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.