Corona Post Acute Center

This facility's best category grade came in the area of health inspections. In this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. It outperformed most facilities in this category. Inspection scores weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 15 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. Nursing grades are largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The third best area we gave this facility in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than most nursing homes. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's worst category is short-term care, which is the final category we looked at. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of just D. Our short-term care grades are thought to be more important for those needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Given its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 3.6 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below the national average.