Chapman Global Medical Center Senior Behavioral Health

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. Our nursing score is mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This place provides 0.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility's third best area was its short-term care score, where it was awarded a C. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is often a reliable measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The final category we analyzed was long-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this area. This is a fair grade in this area. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.