Foothill Regional Medical Center D/P Snf

Foothill Regional Medical Center D/P Snf is a small hospital-based facility located in Tustin, California. It looks like this is a good nursing home. We gave it an overall grade of B, which is a quality grade. You could definitely do much worse than this place. This place was stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also earned first-rate government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better grades in this area, with an A. Inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Among its many impressive scores, this nursing home earned an excellent nursing score. We gave it a grade of B+ in that category. Our nursing score is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This facility boasts a really impressive 9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any facility. On top of offering impressive levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed as well as any nursing home in California in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The third category we analyzed is long-term care. This facility was awarded an impressive long-term care score, with a B in this area. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to really impressive nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination record was top notch as well. Indeed, it vaccinated 97.11539 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we scored was short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a B- in this category. In forming our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this is below average.