Cloverdale Healthcare Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many impressive scores, this facility was awarded a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in this area. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not take any chances. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to its first-rate profile, this facility also received a dominant short-term care score, with a grade of A-. Short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The last category we graded is nursing, which is this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this facility a grade of D in that area. Nevertheless, we wouldn't assess this facility based solely on this area, as it was given a few high-end scores in other categories. Our nursing rating is based on a variety of factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This particular facility averaged a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This statistic is far below the national average. Although this facility's nursing hours were below average, it surprised us in a few of the qualitative areas in this category. In particular, we were pleased to find that its residents appear to be sustaining fewer pressure ulcers than most nursing homes.