Country Villa Pavilion Nursing Center

Country Villa Pavilion Nursing Center is a small nursing home in Los Angeles, California. Sporting an overall rating of B-, this is likely a solid facility. You could definitely do worse than this facility. This nursing home was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

The main reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher grades in that category, with an A. This is a much better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor dings aren't something to panic about.

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. Our nursing score is primarily based on the facility's nurse staffing. With 4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this facility was above the national average. Lastly, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents sustaining falls leading to major injury, this facility performed as well as any nursing home in California. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we graded was long-term care, where this facility was awarded a B- in this area. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we scrutinize the personal care offered to the facility's patients. On top of offering very respectable levels of nurse staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. The last statistic we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 5.2 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this figure is somewhat concerning, this number can be skewed for some facilities based on the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

The final category we assessed was short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in that category. In our short-term care grade, we seek to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. When we looked at this facility's physical therapist hours, we found it offered more hours of physical therapy per day to its residents than most nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 31.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this is below average.