Coronado Healthcare Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a very impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that area with an A-. Inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid places with too many deficiencies flagged. 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.

We also wanted to point out this nursing home's poor long-term care grade where it was given a lowly F. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.35897 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

In our next category, we gave this nursing home a rock-bottom F in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Considering its poor score in this category, we were not shocked to discover this facility provides significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Turning to our fourth category, this facility did not perform very well in this category either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. We assessed the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in determining our rating in this area. 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 assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This facility performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.