Chapman Global Medical Center Senior Behavioral Health

In addition to receiving a strong overall rating, this facility fared even better in the area of inspections which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was given impressive grades in the category of long-term care as well. Consequently, we gave it one of our most dominant grades in that area with a score of A. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.958336 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. Nursing scores are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This place averages 0.9 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is well below average. Lastly, nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

Moving on to our fourth category, this facility was awarded a grade of C for short-term care, which is a decent grade. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.