Encino Hospital Medical Center D/P Snf

Although this nursing home's overall grade was terrible, it actually fared pretty well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B for that category, which is one of our better scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care score and that actually wound up as its next most favorable category. With our short-term care grade, we endeavor to create a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Based on its grade in this category, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Nursing scores are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Switching gears to our last area, this facility did not perform well here either. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is about as terrible as it gets. For patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 96.969696 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.