Dept of State Hospitals - Napa D/P Snf

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. In determining our nursing scores, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

An additional reason we rated this nursing home so favorably is that it was awarded an A+ long-term care score. This is flat out as dominant as it gets in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 96.26169 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that category, which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A for that category. Our inspection ratings are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category we graded, this facility received a very strong grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home wrapped up a straight A report card. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.