With over 25 options located in Los Angeles, California, Grand Park Convalescent Hospital is one of the multitude of possibilities. With an overall rating of B, this facility is a slightly superior option to many of the facilities in Los Angeles. You can certainly do much worse than this place. This nursing home was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Grand Park Convalescent Hospital
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
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Facility Inspections
In addition to being a strong facility overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Nurse Quality
Building on its impressive resume, this facility also excelled in the category of nursing. We gave it an B for that category. Our nursing score is largely based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of moving a patient more frequently.
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Long-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a favorable long-term care score, with a B in the area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 98.36066 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Short-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the last category, this nursing home was awarded a grade of C for short-term care, which is generally an acceptable rating. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Grand Park Convalescent Hospital Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Grand Park Convalescent Hospital, 12.2% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Grand Park Convalescent Hospital, 2.34% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Grand Park Convalescent Hospital, 1.32% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often linked to worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint could be misleading for some facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Grand Park Convalescent Hospital, 13.04% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for a variety of medical conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Grand Park Convalescent Hospital, 9.78% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Grand Park Convalescent Hospital, 3.02% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients demonstrating symptoms of depression. Higher rates of depression may reveal lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Grand Park Convalescent Hospital, 98.96% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Grand Park Convalescent Hospital, 9.76% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate the deterioration of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Grand Park Convalescent Hospital, 5.54% of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that remained mobile levels. Some believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Grand Park Convalescent Hospital, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Grand Park Convalescent Hospital, 5.54% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Grand Park Convalescent Hospital, 5.28% of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Grand Park Convalescent Hospital, 68.38% of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some believe that this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Los Angeles, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus
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