Center at Northridge

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care grade. Short-term care ratings are critical for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

In addition, this nursing home also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the facility's inspection reports. We awarded it an B+ for that area. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. We weren't able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more information about this nursing home. Without having complete deficiency data, it is a challenge to grade the place in this category.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Nursing scores are primarily based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we scored was long-term care, in which this facility received a B. This nursing home turned out to be strong across the board. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We weren't able to find information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.