Cupertino Healthcare & Wellness Center

With an address in Cupertino, California, Cupertino Healthcare & Wellness Center is one of just a few nursing homes in this city. This nursing home was given an overall score of F. Cupertino received a more impressive city grade of B, so there are far better options in the city worth considering. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was nursing, which is addressed in the next section.

Even though we gave this facility an abysmal overall score, we gave it a grade of B- for our nursing category. We analyzed the levels of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility also didn't fare terribly in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of C in that category, which turned out to be another one of its more favorable grades. In our short-term care category, we try to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We were extremely impressed to find that this facility offers its residents substantially more physical therapist hours than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 34.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.

Remarkably, we awarded this facility a grade of C for its long-term care grade, which really isn't too bad of a score. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinates 99.65636 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.89 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home was not too far off the national average.

Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection rating. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This facility was assessed 7 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, we also need to point out that this place received large government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This generally indicates that a nursing home's bad performance spanned more than one year.