Cypress Ridge Care Center is one of four facilities located in Monterey, California. This facility was awarded an overall grade of B-, which is a solid score. This facility seems to have a few things going for it. One of the highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive inspection grade, which is addressed in the next section.
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Cypress Ridge Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Catheter Care
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Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also received an impressive score in our long-term care category. We awarded this facility a better than average grade of B in this area. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the elderly population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Nurse Quality
In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. We weighed the levels of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with patients, in calculating our rating in this area. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient more frequently.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we rated was short-term care. This facility was given a B- for the category. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. It does not look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cypress Ridge Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Cypress Ridge Care Center, 2.98% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Cypress Ridge Care Center, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who experienced a fall resulting in serious injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Cypress Ridge Care Center, 0.59% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term patients who suffered from urinary tract infections. While more infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Cypress Ridge Care Center, 11.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Cypress Ridge Care Center, 8.49% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Cypress Ridge Care Center, 46.98% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Cypress Ridge Care Center, 96.46% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Cypress Ridge Care Center, 0.48% of Patients
This is the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of deterioration of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Cypress Ridge Care Center, 3.19% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Cypress Ridge Care Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Cypress Ridge Care Center, 3.19% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Cypress Ridge Care Center, 10.46% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Cypress Ridge Care Center, 95.24% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with activities of daily living usually correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Scores for Monterey, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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