Community Convalescent Center of San Bernardino

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this facility especially excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of A-. The nursing grade analyzes many datapoints, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 1.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home received a strong long-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our better grades in that category with a grade of B+. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep 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.

The next category we rated is short-term care. This nursing home received an above average short-term care rating in our assessment, with a grade of B-. While this isn't as good as some of its other scores, this remains a respectable grade in that area. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This category is often a meaningful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.