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Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: B-minus
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Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz's website

675 24th Avenue,
Santa Cruz CA 95062

(831) 475-6323

153.8% estimated occupancy 1

Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz is one of just three available facilities in Santa Cruz, California. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this appears to be a solid facility. Based on our ratings, this nursing home likely wouldn't be a bad choice. The best part of this nursing home's report card was is its inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Partnership
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: B-plus

We would like to point out that this facility's inspection rating exceeded its overall grade. This facility earned a B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B

Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a deadly ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-minus

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. We weighed the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with patients, in computing our score in this category. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it scored well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

The last area we rated is short-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. This is a fair grade in this area. In determining our short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. It doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: C

In Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz, 9.73% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz, 4.17% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are routinely associated with lower quality nursing care. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A+

In Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term residents which sustained a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different facilities due to reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz, 11.49% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percentage of residents given antipsychotic medications. These medications may be used to treat a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz, 14.06% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who are given antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz, 0% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz, 100% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient safety.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-plus

In Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz, 5.24% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: F

In Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz, 3.36% of Residents

This is the percentage of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: D

In Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to the physical well-being of residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz, 3.36% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: D

In Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz, 20.5% of Patients

This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A-minus

In Driftwood Healthcare Center - Santa Cruz, 86.63% of Resident

This is the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Dominican HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.66 miles away1555 Soquel Drive Santa Cruz California 95065Proprietary(831) 462-7700
  • Watsonville Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.58 miles away75 Nielson Street Watsonville California 95076Proprietary(831) 724-4741
  • Good Samaritan HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 19.94 miles away2425 Samaritan Drive San Jose California 95124Proprietary(408) 559-2011

Nearby Dialysis

  • Satellite Dialysis Santa Cruz1.26 miles away3801 Clares Street Capitola California 95010CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (831) 600-4600
  • Satellite Dialysis12.89 miles away40 Penny Lane Suite 1 Watsonville California 95076CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (831) 728-8855
  • Satellite Dialysis Los Gatos18.14 miles away53 Los Gatos Saratoga Road Los Gatos California 95032Dialysis Stations: 17 (408) 458-4460
  • Satellite Healthcare Blossom Valley19.98 miles away1450 Kooser Road San Jose California 95118Dialysis Stations: 25 (408) 440-3260

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=055109