Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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1240 S Hoover St,
Los Angeles CA 90006

(213) 382-8461

78.76% estimated occupancy ¹

Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital is located in the large metropolitan area of Los Angeles, California with a total of 2,378,448 people. We gave this nursing home a strong overall score of B+. In fact, this is actually the seventh best nursing home in Los Angeles according to our rankings. This place truly has plenty working in its favor. This place is better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation

Specialized Services

Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy

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Long-term Care Quality

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also performed well in long-term care, where it earned an impressive grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Nurse Quality

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A-. Nursing grades are mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving a resident at least once a day.

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Facility Inspections

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

The last area we graded was short-term care, where this facility was given a B-. Although this ended up being its lowest category grade, this is still not a bad grade. In forming our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. It does not appear that this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we considered the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital, 7.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure gauges the percentage of long-term patients who developed pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are an barometer of a facility's nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital, 1.7% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are often the result of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital, 1.24% of Patients had UTIs

This figure indicates the percentage of long-term patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be an indicator of poor nursing care. However, this datapoint can also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital, 10.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are used for treating a variety of medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital, 13.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital, 4.64% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital, 95.44% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital, 7.92% Percentage of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and using the bathroom.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital, 12.45% Percentage of Residents

This is the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital, 1.61 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital, 12.45 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital, 9.83 Percentage of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Alden Terrace Convalescent Hospital, 79.79% Percentage of Resident

This tells you the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living usually correlates with superior rehabilitation.

Scores for Los Angeles, CA

Overall Rating has a grade of C
Nurse Rating has a grade of B
Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus

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