Clara Baldwin Stocker Home

This facility's nursing rating is notably better than its overall score. Due to a strong performance in this area, it received a quality score in nursing with a grade of B+. The nursing rating features numerous factors. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a patient at least once a day.

This facilities next most favorable category is long-term care. We awarded it a B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the pack grade in this category. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home received its third best score in the area of inspections. Inspection grades are based on a facility's recent government inspection reports. We gave this facility a C in this area. Our inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This nursing home had 3 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This tells you that it avoided the more serious classes of deficiencies. We did not find anything on this nursing home's inspection reports to be overly alarming.

Turning to the final area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D for our short-term care category. This was the facility's worst category grade. In our short-term care grade, we try to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this nursing home offers far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.