Gilroy Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of short-term care, where it earned an A-. Short-term care grades are often employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this category is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Nursing grades are primarily associated with the facility's 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection rating. In fact, inspections turned out to be one of its best grades. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B+. Inspection scores are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

The last category we assessed was long-term care. We awarded this facility one of our more favorable grades in this area, with a B. While this is not as strong as a few of this facility's other grades, it is still a fine score. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.72452 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a life threatening illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.