East Bay Post-Acute

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it was awarded a strong short-term care grade. In fact, short-term care is its second most favorable category score. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of A-. Short-term care grades are important for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our nursing score focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to the last category, this nursing home was given a respectable long-term care score. Although this wasn't quite as impressive as a few of its other grades, this is really not a terrible score. In computing our long-term care ratings, we scrutinize the assistance with daily living offered to a facility's residents. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility provided the vaccine to 99.5671 percent of its patients, which is an above average percentage. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.