Fidelity Health Care is an average-sized nursing home located in El Monte, California. Featuring an overall grade of C, this looks like a middle of the pack facility. This grade is not too far off the city grade for El Monte, which is a B-. One of the highlights of this nursing home's profile is its strong inspection score, which we will address in the next section.
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Fidelity Health Care
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
Specialized Services
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
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Facility Inspections
This facility earned an inspection score which is stronger than its overall score. Inspection scores are tied to a facility's recent inspections. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was given an impressive long-term care score. As a matter of fact, we awarded it a grade of B in this area, which is one of our more favorable scores. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.15498 percent of its residents, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility's third most favorable category was short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a B-. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is often a reliable assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The important question is whether this also impacted quality of care. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.
Nurse Quality
The final area we scored was nursing. We awarded this facility a C in that area. There are a variety of criteria within this area. Most of these criteria reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percentage of patients who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fidelity Health Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Fidelity Health Care, 7.94% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric is is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Fidelity Health Care, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that have had falls leading to major injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Fidelity Health Care, 3.57% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Closer supervision can reduce the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this statistic is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Fidelity Health Care, 20.83% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Fidelity Health Care, 20.16% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Fidelity Health Care, 0% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term residents who are showing symptoms of depression. Some believe that this is a measure of resident quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Fidelity Health Care, 98.01% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Fidelity Health Care, 21.88% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Fidelity Health Care, 12.56% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Fidelity Health Care, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Fidelity Health Care, 12.56% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Fidelity Health Care, 8.66% of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Fidelity Health Care, 72.98% of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for El Monte, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
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Nearby Dialysis
- Temple City Dialysis Facility, Inc.1.56 miles away9945 Lower Azusa Road Temple City California 91780CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (626) 442-3400
- Davita-Greater El Monte Dialysis Center2.53 miles away1938 Tyler Avenue, Suite J-168 South El Monte California 91733CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 14 (626) 350-6692
- Davita-Rosemead Springs Dialysis Center2.97 miles away3212 Rosemead Blvd. El Monte California 91731CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (626) 280-2080
- Fmc-El Monte3.07 miles away11204 E. Rush Street South El Monte California 91733Dialysis Stations: 17 (626) 582-1121
- Davita-Arcadia Oaks Dialysis3.38 miles away721 W Huntington Drive, Suite a-D Arcadia California 91007CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (626) 294-9682
- Advanced Dialysis Center3.84 miles away3932 Downing Avenue Baldwin Park California 91706Dialysis Stations: 18 (626) 856-3333
- San Gabriel Nephrology Services, LLC3.93 miles away801 S. San Gabriel Blvd. San Gabriel California 91776CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 36 (626) 285-1830
- Mountain View Dialysis Center, Inc.4.1 miles away900 S. Mountain Avenue Monrovia California 91016Dialysis Stations: 24 (626) 932-1810