Avocado Post Acute

We wanted to point out that this nursing home' short-term care grade outperformed its overall grade. In fact, we gave it a B+ for its short-term care grade, which is an above average grade. This really helped its overall grade. Our short-term care grade is typically used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an B. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving a resident more often.

The third area we looked at was long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Long-term care grades are generally used to measure a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning our final category of inspections, this facility received an F in this area. This score was detrimental to this facility's overall grade. When a place has this poor of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This particular facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, we also want to point out that this facility was assessed large government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This usually signifies that a facility's bad track record spanned multiple years.