Copper Ridge Care Center

With an overall grade this high, it should come as no surprise that this facility performed well in inspections, where it received a grade of A. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home also was awarded a very strong short-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be this facility's second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place 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 frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving residents more frequently.

The next category we graded was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our better scores in that area, with a B. While this wasn't as strong as several of this nursing home's other grades, it is still a perfectly acceptable grade. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.