Clara Baldwin Stocker Home
527 S Valinda Avenue, West Covina CA 91790 · (626) 962-7151 · 76.25% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Clara Baldwin Stocker Home is a small non-profit nursing home located in West Covina, California. We awarded it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the pack grade. This grade isn't too far off the city grade for West Covina, which is a B-. The best part of this place's profile was is its nursing grade. We discuss nursing in the next section.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
Part of the reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is it earned a very favorable nursing score. Its nursing grade ended up being its best category. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B+. Nursing grades are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides an impressive 4.6 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Finally, this nursing home also fared well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its patients sustaining falls leading to serious injury, this facility outpaced the national average.
Short-term Care Quality
Another one of this nursing home's higher category scores was in the category of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B. Our short-term care grades are likely most important for individuals in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This place fared respectably with 46 percent of its patients returning home.
Facility Inspections
We would also like to draw your attention to this nursing home's strong inspection score. This facility earned a B in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the last area, this facility really didn't fare well. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is this facility's weakest category. Facilities that don't fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. Although we determined this facility has an above average volume of nursing care provided by nurses and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be somewhat lower than we expected. It administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 89.830505 percent of its residents. This is one figure we would like to see this facility improve. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Clara Baldwin Stocker Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric may be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for treating several conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents who were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients showing signs of depression. Increased rates of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percent of long-term residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better