Foothill Regional Medical Center D/P Snf

This nursing home earned a strong overall grade as discussed above, but we especially wanted to point out its excellent nursing rating. We awarded them an A in this category. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also excelled in inspections. We awarded it an B+ for that area, which is one of our best scores. This is one of the few facilities with an overall score in this range which received multiple category grades this high. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home received its third best category score in the area of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a respectable grade. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.9798 percent of its patients. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Our next area is short-term care, in which we awarded this facility a B- in this category. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.