Avamere Rehabilitation of King City

We awarded this facility a grade of A- for our short-term care score. This is much more impressive than the facility's overall grade. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This area is frequently a useful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facility also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an B+. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's second worse score is long-term care, where it received just a D in that category. This is a relatively poor grade. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an above average total. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

The final category we looked at is inspections. Unfortunately, this facility didn't receive favorable inspections in recent years. As a result, we had to give it an F in this area. Since this data is collected by independent government inspectors, we tend to heavily weight negative feedback in this area. This really dragged down this facility's overall grade. For places that received this poor of an inspection grade, we would scrutinize the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility was hit with a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by CMS had potential to create actual harm to patients. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed significant government fines recently totaling more than $100,000. This usually indicates that a poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.