Healdsburg District Hospital Dp/Snf

The main thing propping up this nursing home's profile is its elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this facility an A+ in that category. We looked at the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This facility provided 1.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was awarded a strong long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it one of our highest scores in that category with a score of A+. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 91.80328 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is a bit lower than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Additionally, we awarded this facility a B+ in our short-term care category. This is one of our higher scores. In calculating these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Moving on the final category of inspections, this ended up being this facility's weakest link. Inspection scores are based on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. We gave this facility a D in this category, which is not good. Since this data is collected by independent inspectors, we take it pretty seriously. One of the more critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We would scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility had a deficiency by CMS. Fortunately, it wasn't in one of the categories that suggest that it caused a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, we also want to point out that this facility received significant government fines of more than $100,000. This usually signifies that a bad performance has been an issue for multiple years.