Center Home Hispanic Elderly

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

Surprisingly, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for its short-term care score, which is not too bad of a score. Our short-term care scores are presumably more important for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The third category we assessed was long-term care. This facility's received a rock-bottom long-term care score where it received an F. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 58.495823 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

The final category we assessed is nursing. This nursing home received an abysmal grade of F in this category. There are a number of factors within this category. Many of the criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This number is far below the national average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.