Atherton Regency

Atherton Regency is located in Menlo Park, California. This nursing home proved to be a solid facility, with an overall grade of C. Based on our analysis, there are certainly far worse places out there. The best part of this facility's report card is is its short-term care grade. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.

This facility received a short-term care grade which is better than its overall score. We awarded this facility a B+ in this area. This helped its overall profile quite a bit. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is typically a solid measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. It outperformed most facilities with 49.2 percent of its residents returning home.

Another one of this nursing home's stronger areas was in the category of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. Nursing ratings are primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This place fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented with better nursing care.

This nursing home's next most favorable category turned out to be its long-term care score, where it was awarded a B-. In the area of long-term care, we weigh the quantity of care offered by a nursing home, as opposed to more sophisticated services. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated only 76.57267 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.5 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Turning the last category of inspections, this nursing home really did not fare well. It received an F in this category. This ended up really pulling this facility's overall grade down as we heavily weight this category. When a facility has this poor of an inspection grade, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 2 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.