Alexandria Care Center turns out to be just one of 75 facilities located in Los Angeles, California. This city has quite a few more options to choose from than most other cities in the state. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of C. A grade in this range requires some solid scores. In our view, this facility ought to be a good fit for most people. This nursing home is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Alexandria Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Grade: C
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Respite Care
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Oncology Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Nurse Quality
Grade: B-plus
It should also be noted that this facility's nursing grade outpaced its overall rating. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ for its nursing grade, which is one of our better scores. The nursing grade consists of several components, many of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
Grade: B-minus
This facilities second best category is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this area. In determining our long-term care grades, we quantify the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
Grade: C
The third category we analyzed is short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. In computing our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The hope is that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.
Facility Inspections
Grade: C
The last category we looked at is inspections. Inspection grades are based on a facility's recent government inspection reports. This facility received a C in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. This nursing home had 12 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in categories J through L. This indicates that inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to place patient health or safety in immediate harm or jeopardy. In the bigger picture, this inspection report could have been much worse.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Alexandria Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
Grade: B
In Alexandria Care Center, 7.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
Grade: A-minus
In Alexandria Care Center, 1.7% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who suffered a fall leading to serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
Grade: A+
In Alexandria Care Center, 1.24% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to worse hygiene protocols. More frequent bathing can minimize the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
Grade: A
In Alexandria Care Center, 10.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric tells you the percent of long-term residents who are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs are not medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
Grade: A-plus
In Alexandria Care Center, 13.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
Grade: A+
In Alexandria Care Center, 4.64% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Grade: A
In Alexandria Care Center, 95.44% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Grade: A-plus
In Alexandria Care Center, 7.92% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Grade: F
In Alexandria Care Center, 12.45% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
Grade: C
In Alexandria Care Center, 1.61 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Grade: A-plus
In Alexandria Care Center, 12.45 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Grade: A
In Alexandria Care Center, 9.83 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Grade: B
In Alexandria Care Center, 79.79% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
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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