Flower Villa

Flower Villa is a small nursing home located in Los Angeles, California. We gave it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road rating. In a city without a great selection of nursing homes, we ranked this facility ahead of most of the nursing homes in Los Angeles. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is long-term care, which is discussed in the next section.

This facility earned an elite long-term care grade. We gave this facility an A+ in this category, which bumped up its overall grade. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 93.181816 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. This nursing home received 11 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Our nursing rating consists of a handful of datapoints, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. With 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this place surpassed the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home outpaced the national average. This is typically an accurate indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided with better nursing care.

Turning to our fourth area, this nursing home really did not fare well. With an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this was this nursing home's weakest area. Our short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 15.6 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.