Desert Regional Medical Center D/P Snf

Desert Regional Medical Center D/P Snf is one of four nursing homes located in Palm Springs, California. It looks like this nursing home is one of the most elite facilities we looked at. Being awarded an A+ in our grading system requires superb scores across the board. We ranked this nursing home in the top 100 nursing homes in California, which is a distinguished list. If you look below, you will see this facility's category grades, which are also impressive.

In addition to being a first-rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled at short-term care, where it received an elite grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about 50% more services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is a very favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation with 71.6 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an A+. There are quite a few subcategories within this grade. Many of these datapoints reflect levels of nurse staffing. This facility boasts a really impressive 6.6 hours of nursing care per patient per day, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of nursing care, this place also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. It performed as well as any facility in the country in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. Our inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had a few 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 inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

The last area we graded was long-term care. This nursing home was given a strong nursing rating in our assessment, with a B. Even though this isn't as dominant as a few of its other grades, this is nevertheless one of our better grades for this area. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were not able to find information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.