Berkley East HealthCare Center is one of a multitude of available nursing homes to select from in Santa Monica, California. Featuring an overall score of D, this is a well below average facility. While this score isn't too far off the city grade in Santa Monica which is a C, you still ought to be able to do better. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is short-term care, which is discussed in the next section.
Berkley East HealthCare Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Dialysis Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Catheter Care
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
Although we weren't complementary of this nursing home's overall score, it earned an A- in the category of short-term care. If it wasn't for this category, this facility's profile would have been even worse. Our short-term care scores are thought to be most critical for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 7.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this nursing home an C. When determining our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides only 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place surprisingly fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it scored well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the number of hours of care provided.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility ended up receiving a bottom of the barrel score in our long-term care category. It was given a lowly F in this area. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is higher than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.
Facility Inspections
The final category we assessed is inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F here. When a facility has this bad of an inspection score, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This particular nursing home had 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 15 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Berkley East HealthCare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Berkley East HealthCare Center, 7.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Berkley East HealthCare Center, 1.7% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a fall leading to major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Berkley East HealthCare Center, 1.24% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents which sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be a sign of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this statistic may be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Berkley East HealthCare Center, 10.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were administered antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some facilities need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of patients suffering from cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Berkley East HealthCare Center, 13.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Berkley East HealthCare Center, 4.64% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Berkley East HealthCare Center, 95.44% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Berkley East HealthCare Center, 7.92% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and using the bathroom. Some believe this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Berkley East HealthCare Center, 12.45% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Berkley East HealthCare Center, 1.61 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is key to preserving the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Berkley East HealthCare Center, 12.45 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Berkley East HealthCare Center, 9.83 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Berkley East HealthCare Center, 79.79% Percentage of Resident
Measures the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Santa Monica, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
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Nearby Dialysis
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- u.s. Renal Care Culver City4.85 miles away9808 Venice Blvd., Suite 200 Culver City California 90232Dialysis Stations: 18 (310) 841-0500
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