Brookdale San Dimas

On top of faring well overall, this facility received high marks in the category of short-term care as well. As a result, it received our highest grade in that category with a score of A+. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is typically a solid measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing grade is primarily based on a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We gave this nursing home an A- for inspections. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

The final category we scored is long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a C. Although this wound up being its poorest category score, this is still not a poor grade. In the category of long-term care, we assess the amount of care offered by a nursing home, rather than more sophisticated services. After we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 96.969696 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.