Bellflower Post Acute
9710 E. Artesia Ave, Bellflower CA 90706 · (562) 925-2274 · 83.38% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
With an address in Bellflower, California, Bellflower Post Acute is one of four nursing homes in this area. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B. A grade of this caliber requires quality scores in most areas. As far as we can see, this facility is a good fit for quite a few people. This facility is stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of our major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 59 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is it received a very impressive short-term care grade. Short-term care is its best category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A-. Our short-term care grade is often used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. This facility performed better in this area than in its staffing levels. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in the nation with 69.6 percent of its patients returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A-. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, it fared as well as any facility the country in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these statistics as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we gave them one of our stronger scores in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of providing very impressive levels of nurse staffing, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This percentage is also significantly better than the average nursing home. The last datapoint we looked at was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 4.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this admittedly wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this area, this number may be skewed for some facilities due to some of the preexisting medical conditions of residents.
Facility Inspections
Moving on to the last category of inspections, this was not one of this nursing home's better grades. Inspection grades are based on a nursing home's recent inspections. We gave this facility a C in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. This facility had 7 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This tells you this facility dodged the more serious categories of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Bellflower Post Acute Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are often caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care patients that have sustained a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it is difficult to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients which were administered antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that retained mobility levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is critical to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
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 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's usually correlates with better rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better