Palms Care Center is a small facility located in Chowchilla, California. This nursing home received an F, which is really a bottom of the barrel score in our grading scheme. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Chowchilla. The city has just one other nursing home. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, we will discuss nursing in the next section.
Palms Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 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 Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Dialysis Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Catheter Care
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
On top of receiving a terrible overall score, we also gave this nursing home weak scores across the board in the various categories. In fact, it received just a D for its nursing score, which is its best grade. When determining a facility's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses commit to patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility averages 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out this facility's inspection score where it received a lowly F. This usually means we found some major red flags on its inspection reports. When a facility has this poor of an inspection score, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This particular facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, we also want to point out that this place received significant government fines totaling over $100,000. This generally means that a nursing home'spoor performance has been an issue for multiple years.
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Short-term Care Quality
In our next category, we gave this facility a rock-bottom F in the category of short-term care. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is frequently a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we rated is long-term care, in which this facility was given an abysmal score here as well. We gave it a lowly F in this category, which is obviously very concerning. Facilities that do not score well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 93.47826 percent of its patients. This is a few points less than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Palms Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Palms Care Center, 7.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Palms Care Center, 1.7% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who have sustained a fall leading to major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Palms Care Center, 1.24% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of long-term patients who suffered from urinary tract infections. UTI's could be a sign of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Palms Care Center, 10.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many patients, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Palms Care Center, 13.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients who are administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Palms Care Center, 4.64% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Palms Care Center, 95.44% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Palms Care Center, 7.92% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating. Many argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Palms Care Center, 12.45% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who retained mobility levels. Some experts believe that the ability to move around is vital to patients mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In Palms Care Center, 1.61 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Palms Care Center, 12.45 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Palms Care Center, 9.83 Percentage of Patients
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Palms Care Center, 79.79% Percentage of Resident
This is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Mercy Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 18.65 miles away333 Mercy Avenue Merced California 95340Voluntary non-profit - Private(209) 564-5000
Nearby Dialysis
- Madera Kidney Center15.25 miles away1560 Country Club Rd Madera California 93638CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (559) 673-5259
- North Madera Dialysis15.73 miles away720 N. I St. Madera California 93637Dialysis Stations: 22 (559) 664-8780
- North Merced Dialysis Center17.21 miles away3393 G Street, Bld a Siute A Merced California 95340CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (209) 723-0013
- Almond-Wood Dialysis17.38 miles away501 E Almond Avenue Madera California 93637CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (559) 664-9252
- Merced East Dialysis18.04 miles away464 East Yosemite Avenue Ste B Merced California 95340Dialysis Stations: 12 (209) 205-1126
- Satellite Dialysis Merced19.16 miles away3376 North Highway 59 Suite I Merced California 95348CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (209) 383-7370