Coronado Healthcare Center

To go along with its favorable overall grade, we awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Contributing to this facility's list of strengths, it also was given a superb long-term care score. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 95.0685 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. Lastly, this nursing home 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.

This nursing home's third best category is short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B-. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. It doesn't look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.

The final category we rated turned out to be this nursing home's worst category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it an acceptable grade of B- for nursing. The nursing rating weighs numerous data points. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.