Canyon Springs Post-Acute

Canyon Springs Post-Acute is on a list of 19 facilities in San Jose, California. Sporting an overall grade of A-, this nursing home is one of the higher-graded nursing homes we assessed. We can't find many negative things to say about this nursing home. Its ratings are as good as they get. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its nursing rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing, where it earned an A. Our nursing grade considers a host of datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is better than what is offered by most nursing homes. Finally, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. It performed as well as any facility the country in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility also was strong in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of A-. Very few facilities fared better in this category. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.80658 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. The last statistic we looked at is the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 3.6 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this area, this statistic may be skewed for some nursing homes based on the medical complexity of patients.

The third category we assessed is short-term care. Adding to its impressive profile, this nursing home also excelled in that area. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- in the area. Our short-term care ratings are probably most critical for residents needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this area is that it offers a significantly greater volume of physical therapist hours to its patients than a typical nursing home. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 49.9 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

Turning to our inspection category, it appears this nursing home has earned quality inspections in recent years as well. We gave it a B in this category. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.