Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility is a senior living facility located in Delano, California, a city with 55,659 people. This is a well below average facility, with an overall grade of D. Unfortunately, this grade is not too far off the city grade for Delano, which is a C. Nevertheless, you still ought to be able to do better More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was inspections, which is addressed in the next section.
Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Note: Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Other
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a B- for inspections. This grade is better than the facility's overall grade. Inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. This place received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an B-. In determining our nursing grades, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's third most favorable category was long-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this area. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.49622 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
Switching gears to our last area, this facility was awarded a respectable short-term care score of C. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 3.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility, 7.62% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility, 1.67% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who suffered a fall which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility, 1.21% of Patients had UTIs
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents which have suffered from urinary tract infections. Although a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to facilities having inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility, 10.06% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients who are administered antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically required. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility, 13.91% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term residents which were given antianxiety medication. These drugs are given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility, 4.33% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients who are showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility, 95.72% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility, 8.37% Percentage of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility, 14.05% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility, 1.49 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility, 14.05 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility, 9.85 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Delano District Skilled Nursing Facility, 79.63% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Delano Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.08 miles away1401 Garces Highway Delano California 93215Proprietary(661) 725-4800
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita-Delano Dialysis0.76 miles away405 Dover Parkway Delano California 93215CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (661) 725-1370
- Delano Kidney Center, LLC1.03 miles away1980 Cecil Avenue Delano California 93215Dialysis Stations: 20 (661) 721-2830
- Davita-Rose Point Dialysis13.95 miles away400 Palm Ave Wasco California 93280Dialysis Stations: 16 (661) 758-2360