Advanced Health Care of Sacramento

Advanced Health Care of Sacramento is one of several nursing home options to select from in Sacramento, California. We gave this nursing home a strong overall score of A. In fact, this is actually the sixth best facility in Sacramento according to our rankings. We can not find many negative things to say about this facility. Its ratings are as good as they get. As you can find below, this facility also performed well in our category ratings. It is hard to poke holes in this facility's profile.

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Inspection grades are based on many items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its elite assessments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A- for its long-term care score. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On the whole this looks like a solid option for long-term care.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses spent with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In our last category, this nursing home also was awarded a very strong short-term care grade, with a B+. This rounded out a very favorable report card. Our short-term care grades are thought to be more important for patients requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.