Advanced Rehab Center of Tustin

On top of receiving a solid overall score, this nursing home also earned a strong inspection score, which is based on its recent health inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ in this category. Our inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Building on its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in nursing. We awarded it a grade of B+ for that category. Nursing grades are largely based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it was given a grade of B. It outpaced most facilities in this area. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next area we graded was short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in that category. In forming these short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.