Country Villa Mar Vista Nrs Center

Country Villa Mar Vista Nrs Center is a small facility in Los Angeles, California. This nursing home is a lower end facility. A score of this caliber suggests we found a few red flags. If you aren't happy with this nursing home, you should be able to find another option in Los Angeles, as the city has more than 25 nursing homes. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that area, which is one of our highest scores. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid places that had too many deficiencies. This place was hit with 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We also gave this nursing home a middle of the road score in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. The facility offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. It performed decently in this area, with 45.7 percent of its patients returning home.

We were surprised to find that this facility also excelled in the category of nursing. We awarded it a grade of D for that category, which is one of our best grades. There are a number of criteria within this category. Many of the factors relate to nurse staffing. Quantity of nursing care is not the problem here with this nursing home's grade. This place actually provides an above average 4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. While it fared well in terms of nursing hours, this place received poor scores in the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in both of these datapoints. This is a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These datapoints helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.

The next area we assessed is long-term care, was this facility's least impressive area. We gave this facility a grade of D in this area. For residents looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 2 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't bad due to it having more complex patients.