Corona Regional Medical Center D/P Snf

This facility received a quality overall grade as described above, but we especially want to point out its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. The nursing grade features a host of datapoints. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided just 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, our nursing grades also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

The third area we looked at is short-term care, where this facility was awarded a B- in this category. Our short-term care grades are believed to be most critical for folks in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.

Moving on to the last category, this nursing home received an acceptable long-term care grade of C. In our long-term care category, we focus more on the quantity of services provided by a nursing home, along with some qualitative metrics. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.