Capistrano Beach Care Center

Capistrano Beach Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Capistrano Beach, California. We gave this facility an overall grade of B. A score of this caliber requires respectable scores in most areas. Based on our ratings, you could do much worse than this place. This place was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any weak links in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

One of the reasons this place is a quality facility is that it received an impressive inspection grade. Inspections turned out to be its best category. In this area, we awarded it an A-. Our inspection scores are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Among this nursing home's other strengths is its high-end short-term care score. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a grade of A-. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more important for residents in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in California in this area with 62.6 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. According to its staffing data, this facility provided an average of 4 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which was above average. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as minimizing major falls. This nursing home performed admirably in this statistic. Avoiding serious falls is often a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls can be prevented if a facility offers enough nurses to assist its residents.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home received an acceptable long-term care grade of C. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the statistics we considered in addition to this facility's above average nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.2906 percent of its residents. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the senior population. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.