Casa Del Sol Center

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also received an elite long-term care score. We awarded them one of our better scores in that category, with an impressive grade of A-. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 95.454544 percent of its patients, which is more than the average nursing home. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection scores are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's inspections. Places that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the third area, this facility also received a grade of B for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this category. Short-term care grades are commonly used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next category we rated was nursing. This nursing home received a grade of B- in the category. When computing our nursing ratings, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a somewhat concerning figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, we like to look at quality-based metrics, such as the percent of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.