Casa De Modesto

To pair with its decent overall grade, we gave this facility an A- for its inspection grade. This is far better than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection grades are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given a strong grade in our long-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B+ in that category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home's third highest area was short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. In computing these short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below average.

Turning to our next category, this facility received a C for nursing, which is generally an acceptable grade. There are several factors within this area. Most of these criteria relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Although this nursing home didn't have as many nursing hours per resident as many of the other facilities we looked at, it was still better than average in the area of avoiding major falls.