Fruitvale Healthcare Center is in the densely populated metropolitan area of Oakland, California. We gave this facility an overall grade of B. A score in this range requires solid marks in most areas. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Oakland. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.
Fruitvale Healthcare Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Pharmacy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its impressive profile, this place also excelled in the category of nursing. We gave it an B for that category. Our nursing rating is primarily tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home 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 frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Long-term Care Quality
The next area we graded is long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. Long-term care grades focus on a nursing home's personal care rather than the highly skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.77477 percent of its patients. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to our last area, this facility received a B- for short-term care, which is a decent rating. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that just 3.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fruitvale Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Fruitvale Healthcare Center, 7.62% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Fruitvale Healthcare Center, 1.67% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are often linked to poor nursing care. Closer supervision can limit the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Fruitvale Healthcare Center, 1.21% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare between facilities due to reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Fruitvale Healthcare Center, 10.06% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that are administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of patients with dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Fruitvale Healthcare Center, 13.91% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure measures the percent of long-term patients which were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Fruitvale Healthcare Center, 4.33% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Fruitvale Healthcare Center, 95.72% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Fruitvale Healthcare Center, 8.37% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of deterioration of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Fruitvale Healthcare Center, 14.05% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Fruitvale Healthcare Center, 1.49 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is important to preserving the physical health of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Fruitvale Healthcare Center, 14.05 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Fruitvale Healthcare Center, 9.85 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Fruitvale Healthcare Center, 79.63% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Oakland, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- 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
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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