Bay Crest Care Center
3750 Garnet Street, Torrance CA 90503 · (310) 371-2431 · 90.12% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Bay Crest Care Center is in Torrance, California. This city has a population of 174,353 people. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B. A grade of this caliber requires solid marks in most areas. Even in a city with 12 nursing homes, this nursing home turns out to be a perfectly acceptable choice. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong profile is its nursing score. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 80 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our nursing category weighs a handful of subcategories, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Lastly, this place was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. It performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, this nursing home also was awarded favorable short-term care grades this year. Indeed, we gave it one of our higher scores in that category, with a grade of B. With our short-term care rating, we try to craft a fair measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 42.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our more positive scores in our long-term care category as well, with a B. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.0566 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 3.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this area, this figure may be skewed for some facilities based on some of the preexisting medical conditions of residents.
Facility Inspections
In the final category we assessed, this nursing home earned a decent score in inspections as well. We gave it a B- for that category. This facility didn't have any major weaknesses. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bay Crest Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents which suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of long-term care residents that suffered from urinary tract infections. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare between facilities due to reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who were given antianxiety medication. These medications are typically given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better