Applewood Post Acute
1090 Rio Lane, Sacramento CA 95822 · (916) 446-2506 · 81.56% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Applewood Post Acute is a small facility in Sacramento, California. Sporting an overall score of A, this nursing home is ranked among the top nursing homes we found. Indeed, this is one of the top five facilities in Sacramento. As you can find below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category scores. It would be hard to poke holes in this facility's profile.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 51 Beds
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For profit - Partnership
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to point out that this facility excelled in our nursing category. We gave them an A+ in this area. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing impressive levels of nursing care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed as well as any facility in the country when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Short-term Care Quality
On the list of its many elite grades, this facility was awarded a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a score of A in this category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is typically a reliable assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. This nursing home offered more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. It performed respectably with 45.8 percent of its residents able to return home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we scored is long-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our better scores in this area, with a B. While this was not as strong as many of this facility's other grades, it is nevertheless a perfectly acceptable grade. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to offering elite levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.47328 percent of its patients. This figure is also far higher than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.44 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Applewood Post Acute Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision. Closer supervision limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression could indicate a lower level of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of patients who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom. Many in the industry argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that were able to retain mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to preserving the physical health of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better