Empres Post Acute Rehabilitation

This facility's nursing grade is more impressive than its overall score. With a strong performance in this area, it received a quality score in that category with a grade of B+. The nursing rating features several factors. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving patients even once per day.

The next best area we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is considered to be a solid assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The tricky part is determining what bearing this had on the quality of care. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.

Looking to our inspection category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our inspection grades are based on the facility's health inspection reports. We believe that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. 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. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

The next area we graded was long-term care. This nursing home received a C in this category. Our long-term care scores are based in part on the facility's amount of nursing care. This means a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.