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 6.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

To complement its first-rate achievements in other areas, we awarded this facility a score of A for its long-term care grade. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. This facility knocked it out of the park in this area.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing score is based on a host of factors. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the final category we looked at, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a B+. Our inspection scores are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. It does not appear that we have deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.