Healdsburg District Hospital Dp/Snf

This nursing home earned a strong overall grade as mentioned above, but we wanted to point out its excellent long-term care grade. We awarded them a grade of A in this category. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 95.2381 percent of its residents, which is more than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A. Our nursing grade is mostly associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also was awarded an impressive short-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this area. Our short-term care grades are considered to be most critical for patients requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires more skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Turning to the final category of inspections, this was not one of this nursing home's better grades. Inspection grades are based on a nursing home's recent government inspections. We gave this nursing home a C in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.