Foothill Regional Medical Center D/P Snf

To pair with its favorable overall performance, we gave this facility an A for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

Adding to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also received an excellent nursing grade. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. The nursing grade considers a host of subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also was awarded an impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this category. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 94.33962 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we scored is short-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of C. While this proved to be its weakest category grade, this is still nothing to be ashamed of. In the area of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage 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 below average.