CPMC Mission Bernal Campus & Orthopedic Institute

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great facility is that it earned a strong short-term care grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A. Our short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. We were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 7.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we gave this nursing home an A for inspections. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Our nursing grade is based on many factors, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to the last area, this facility also performed well in our long-term care category. In fact, we gave it a B+ for that category. This topped off a first-rate profile. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is far higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.