Brentwood Health Care Center is a small facility located in Santa Monica, California. We awarded this nursing home an acceptable overall score of B-. Interestingly, it turned out to be ranked among the five highest graded facilities in the city. Even in a city of 11 nursing homes, this facility turns out to be a quality selection. You also may want to review this facility's category grades below. We discuss short-term care in the next section.
Brentwood Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received a far better grade for short-term care than its overall score. It received one of our best scores in that category with a score of A. Our short-term care ratings are vital for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 7.1 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.
Facility Inspections
This facility also received favorable health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. This is better than the facility's overall grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This facility was hit with 10 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A couple relatively minor dings are not something to panic about.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we rated was long-term care, is this facility's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a D in this area. This really is one of just a couple of weak points on a strong report card. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 96.66667 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Brentwood Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Brentwood Health Care Center, 7.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Brentwood Health Care Center, 1.7% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a fall leading to serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Brentwood Health Care Center, 1.24% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Brentwood Health Care Center, 10.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for many medical conditions, including cognitive disorders. Unfortunately, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Brentwood Health Care Center, 13.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents which were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Brentwood Health Care Center, 4.64% of Patients
This is the percent of residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. High rates of depression could reveal lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Brentwood Health Care Center, 95.44% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Brentwood Health Care Center, 7.92% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating. Some experts would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Brentwood Health Care Center, 9.83 Percentage of Patients
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.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Brentwood Health Care Center, 79.79% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
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
Looking for more options? Santa Monica, California has 10 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Providence Saint John's Health CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.77 miles away2121 Santa Monica Blvd Santa Monica California 90404Voluntary non-profit - Private(310) 829-5511
- Santa Monica - Ucla Med Ctr & Orthopaedic HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.2 miles away1250 16th Street Santa Monica California 90404Voluntary non-profit - Private(310) 319-4000
- Ronald Reagan U C L a Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.2 miles away757 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles California 90095Government - State(310) 825-6301
- Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UclaPsychiatric 2.25 miles away150 Medical Plaza-Rm-4230c Los Angeles California 90095Government - State(310) 825-6962
- Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.66 miles away8700 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles California 90048Voluntary non-profit - Other(310) 423-5000
- Sherman Oaks HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.44 miles away4929 Van Nuys Blvd Sherman Oaks California 91403Voluntary non-profit - Private(818) 981-7111
- Southern California Hospital at HollywoodAcute Care Hospitals 9.07 miles away6245 De Longpre Ave Los Angeles California 90028Proprietary(323) 462-2271
- Providence Tarzana Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.83 miles away18321 Clark Street Tarzana California 91356Voluntary non-profit - Private(818) 881-0800
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita-Mar Vista0.1 miles away2020 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 100 & 120 Santa Monica California 90404CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (310) 453-4900
- Davita-Santa Monica Dialysis1.3 miles away1260 15th Street, Suite 102 Santa Monica California 90404CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (310) 393-4744
- Davita-Century City Dialysis Center2.26 miles away10630 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles California 90025CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 40 (310) 954-2700
- Fmc-Culver City Dialysis3.49 miles away9432 Venice Blvd. Culver City California 90230CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (310) 836-2237
- Davita-Beverlywood Dialysis3.6 miles away2080 Century Park East, Suite 210 Los Angeles California 90067Dialysis Stations: 13 (310) 772-0224
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital Medical Ctr.- West Los Angeles4.25 miles awayDialysis Unit 6041 Cadillac Avenue, Suite 442 Los Angeles California 90034Dialysis Stations: 4 (323) 857-3245
- u.s. Renal Care Culver City4.3 miles away9808 Venice Blvd., Suite 200 Culver City California 90232Dialysis Stations: 18 (310) 841-0500
- u.s. Renal Care West Los Angeles Dialysis5.31 miles away1801 S. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles California 90035CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (310) 840-5688