Delano Postacute Care
729 Browning Road, Delano CA 93215 · (661) 725-2501 · 92.07% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Delano Postacute Care is one of just three available facilities located in Delano, California. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel nursing home. Delano received a city grade of C, so there are other options in the city worth looking at. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category was inspections, which is discussed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 53 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
This facility's second best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Nursing scores are primarily tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. Quantity of nursing care is apparently not the issue here with this nursing home's grade. This facility actually provides an above average 4.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this facility didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home was above the national average in both of these metrics. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics dragged down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we gave this nursing home an F in the area of long-term care. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care likely don't provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes provide. This facility's vaccination statistics were not as strong as its nursing hours. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 43.82716 percent of its patients. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Surprisingly, this place wasn't as bad as we expected at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 2.78 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was not bad due to it having more complicated patients.
Short-term Care Quality
The last category we looked at was short-term care. It received a lowly F in this category, which is an abysmal score. Our short-term care grades are arguably most important for patients needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its score in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 26.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care grade.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Delano Postacute Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure tells you the percent of long-term patients which are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for many medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term residents who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate deterioration of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks 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
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better