Advantage Living Center - Roseville

In addition to receiving a terrible overall score, we also gave this nursing home weak scores across the board in our category grades. It received just a D for its nursing grade, which proved to be its best category. Our nursing grade assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

Unfortunately, this facility earned really poor inspection reports in recent years, causing us to give them an F in our inspection category. An F in this category is usually a signal that we found some major red flags on its inspection reports. For nursing homes with poor inspection grades, you should really scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular facility was hit with a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies uncovered by CMS had the potential to pose actual harm to patients. Another area of concern is that CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

The next area we analyzed is short-term care. This facility's was given a rock-bottom short-term care grade where it was given a lowly F. Short-term care grades are typically employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.

Turning to our final area, this facility did not perform very well in this area either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. Long-term care scores in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were concerned by the fact that this facility vaccinated a relatively low 37.226276 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.