California Post Acute
909 S Lake Street, Los Angeles CA 90006 · (213) 385-7301 · 81.66% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
California Post Acute is a small nursing home in Los Angeles, California. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this looks like a solid nursing home. You could certainly do worse than this facility. One of the major highlights of this facility's report card is its remarkable nursing grade, which we will address in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 66 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but it really excelled in the area of nursing care, with an impressive grade of A in this category. In determining our nursing scores, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.4 hours per resident daily. This is more nursing care than nearly any other place provides. Lastly, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, it fared as well as any nursing home the state in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these statistics as good measures of the caliber of nursing care provided.
Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility an impressive grade in long-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our more impressive scores. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the elite level of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were impressed by the facility's record for vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 4.17 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as strong as most of its other scores in this area, this figure can be skewed for some nursing homes due to the medical complexity of patients.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home's inspection grade also was quite a bit better than its overall grade. Due to a strong inspection report this year, it received one of our better scores in that category with a B. Our inspection grades are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few relatively minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's least impressive category is short-term care, which is the final category we scored. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area. Even with some acceptable grades in other areas, this score is still of a concern so we would like to to draw your attention to it. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. It appears that this place was subpar in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the staffing figures we considered. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 22.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
California Post Acute Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and continence.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better