Beacon Healthcare Center
919 N Sunset Ave, West Covina CA 91790 · (626) 962-4489 · 75.55% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Beacon Healthcare Center is a small facility located in West Covina, California. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road score. Based on our ratings, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. The best part of this place's profile was is its nursing score. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 54 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
The main thing propping up this nursing home's profile is its elite nursing rating. We gave this facility an A- in that category. Our nursing rating analyzes many subcategories, but the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. With 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Finally, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Facility Inspections
This facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned an A-. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Short-term Care Quality
We also awarded this facility a middle of the pack score in the area of short-term care, with a grade of C. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is generally a reliable measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this facility. It performed respectably in this area with 46.8 percent of its residents returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed is long-term care, which is this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in that area. Naturally, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall profile a bit. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. After looking at nursing hours provided by this nursing home, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. Based on its grade in this category, we were surprised to discover that this facility performed reasonably well both of these statistics. Indeed, this facility vaccinated 97.8022 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which appears to be higher than many nursing homes. To our surprise, this place also wasn't as bad as we expected at keeping its patients out of the hospital. While it had 2.14 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't bad due to it having more complicated patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Beacon Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay patients who experienced falls leading to severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint could be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand 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 residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better