Center at Northridge

On top of faring well in its overall grade, this facility earned an excellent short-term care score. We gave it an A in that area. Our short-term care scores are important for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we were able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning the page to our third category, this nursing home received first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that area. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were not able to find information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the final category we assessed, this nursing home received a very strong grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this score, the facility wrapped up an elite profile. The nursing score weighs several factors, but the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.