Comm. Hosp. Of San Bernardino Dp Snf

Comm. Hosp. Of San Bernardino Dp Snf is an average-sized hospital-based nursing home located in San Bernardino, California. This nursing home was given an overall score of B. As a matter of fact, this is one of the three highest graded facilities in the city. Even in a city with 11 other nursing homes, this one turns out to be a sound selection. This facility was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any weak links in any of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

One of the reasons this ended up being a quality facility is that it earned an impressive inspection rating. In fact, inspections is its best category grade. In this category, we awarded it an A. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not 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.

Contributing to this facility's list of achievements, it also received a high-end long-term care score. We awarded them an impressive strong of A in this category. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to providing very favorable levels of nursing care, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. This combination proved to be effective as this place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also gave this nursing home a decent grade in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. In forming our short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.

The last category we rated was nursing. We awarded it a C in this category. This is a decent grade in this area. Our nursing score focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 7 hours of nursing care per resident daily, of which a significant portion were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the better totals of nursing hours we found at any nursing home in the San Bernardino area. Finally, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically an accurate indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses and better safety protocols are in place.