Delta Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

Delta Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a small nursing home located in Visalia, California. This nursing home received an overall grade of B, which is a good grade. Indeed, this is better than many of the facilities in Visalia. This nursing home's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next section.

This facility received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially would like to emphasize its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Adding to its profile, this nursing home also received a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is often a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation with 61.2 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. The nursing grade weighs a handful of components, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any facility the state in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these datapoints as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care offered.

The next area we rated was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the statistics we considered in addition to this nursing home's strong nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had just 1.49 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.