Advanced Health Care of Sacramento

One of the reasons this place turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is as good as it gets in this very important category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

We also wanted to alert you to the fact that this facility performed well in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an elite grade of A+ in this area. In our short-term care category, we strive to craft a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we rated is long-term care. This facility received a better than average long-term care grade this year, with a grade of C. While this isn't as strong as several of its other category grades, this is still a decent grade for that area. In the category of long-term care, we assess the amount of care provided by a nursing home, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. It doesn't look like this facility submitted information about vaccinations. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.