Coronado Healthcare Center

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. In spite of this deficiency, this place still received a relatively favorable inspection report.

This nursing home's second best category is long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the road score in this category. In our long-term care assessment, we weigh the sheer quantity of services provided by a nursing home, as well as a series of quality statistics. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. In calculating our nursing scores, we look at both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This place performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Switching gears to the next area, this nursing home really didn't perform well in this category either. Due to a poor grade of F in short-term care, this is about as terrible as it gets. Short-term care scores are vital for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Based on its abysmal rating in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this nursing home provides significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this nursing home's short-term care score.