Alamitos West Health & Rehabilitation

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our long-term care grade. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. Even though we determined this facility had an above average quantity of nursing hours provided by nurses aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccine statistics to be somewhat slightly lower than we anticipated. This nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 85.399445 percent of its residents. This is one figure we would like to see this facility improve on. The last datapoint we assessed is the facility's hospitalization rate. Although it had 2.05 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was close to the national average since it had some more complex patients.

In addition, this facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on its inspections. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category. Our inspection scores are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This facility really excelled in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Only a select group of nursing homes performed more favorably in this area. With our short-term care grade, we attempt to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. This place performed as well as just about any nursing home in California in this area with 65.8 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

The last area we analyzed is nursing, where we awarded it an above average grade of B. This facility really did not have any weak spots. When computing a facility's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses are seeing patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This place provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an impressive statistic which typically corresponds with higher quality care. Lastly, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.