Alhambra Healthcare & Wellness Centre

Alhambra Healthcare & Wellness Centre is an average-sized facility in Alhambra, California. We gave it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack grade. You could certainly do worse than this nursing home. This nursing home is stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an B. When calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are caring for patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility was given its next most favorable category score in the category of long-term care. We gave this facility a B- in this category, which is an acceptable score. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an above average percentage. The last datapoint we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 4.26 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic can be skewed for some facilities based on the medical complexity of residents.

The final area we scored is short-term care. For that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is typically a meaningful measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Remarkably, this facility provides its residents with at least 50% more physical therapist hours per week than the average facility. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 32.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.