Del Rio Gardens Care Center
7002-4 East Gage Avenue, Bell Gardens CA 90201 · (562) 927-6586 · 92.02% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Del Rio Gardens Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Bell Gardens, California. This isn't a very good nursing home with a D overall grade. Sadly, this grade is right in line with the city grade in Bell Gardens. As far as we can see, we would be very reluctant to recommend this nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category grades. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 84 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
Although we were not complementary of this nursing home's overall grade, it received an impressive long-term care grade this year. We gave it a B in this category. For patients seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 69.63696 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 5.31 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as strong as most of its other scores in this area, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities based on the preexisting medical conditions of residents.
Nurse Quality
Surprisingly, this facility actually received an impressive nursing grade this year as well. We gave it a grade of B in this category. We looked at the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with residents, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place 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 many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning patients more frequently.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the area of short-term care, this facility received just a D in this area. Our short-term care scores are critical for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this facility provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.
Facility Inspections
Moving on the last category of inspections, this facility really did not fare well. Sadly, it received an F in our inspection rating. This happens to be the most heavily weighted category in our scoring system. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection rating. We recommend you scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This facility was hit with one category J through K deficiency, which rank among the worst categories of deficiencies. This generally means that CMS uncovered a deficiency which puts resident safety or health in immediate danger. Lastly, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed significant government fines of more than $50,000. This often suggests that inspectors became frustrated after several years of failed government inspections.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Del Rio Gardens Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric may be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for treating several conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents who were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients showing signs of depression. Increased rates of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percent of long-term residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better