Bel Vista Healthcare Center
5001 East Anaheim Street, Long Beach CA 90804 · (562) 494-5001 · 85.6% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Bel Vista Healthcare Center is in Long Beach, California. This city is one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the country with has a population of 471,952 people. This facility was awarded an A- overall, which is one of our better scores. In fact, we were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it as one of the five highest graded nursing homes in Long Beach. This nursing home's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which is addressed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 41 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection grade. Inspections ended up being its best category. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Nurse Quality
To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We analyzed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with residents, in determining our score in this area. This nursing home offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.6 hours per resident on a daily basis. This is more nursing care than nearly any other place provides. Lastly, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering falls which lead to serious injury, this facility performed as well as any nursing home in the state. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was awarded an elite grade of A- in our short-term care area. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in California in this area with 56.9 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to our fourth category, this nursing home was given a decent long-term care grade. Although this wasn't quite as elite as some of its other grades, this is really not the end of the world. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to offering very solid levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was less favorable. We found that this nursing home had 2.21 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bel Vista Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . Falls which result in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. However, this metric could be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients who were given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required more 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 is the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better