Camarillo Senior Living

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Short-term care ratings are crucial for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an A+. Nursing scores are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident more frequently.

Tallying yet another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned an A-. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Turning to the next area, this nursing home was given a decent long-term care grade. Even though this was not quite as good as a few of its other scores, this is truly not a major area of concern. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. It does not look like this facility provided data regarding vaccinations. Lastly, this place keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.