Healthcare Center of Orange County
9021 Knott Ave, Buena Park CA 90620 · (714) 826-2330 · 92.02% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Healthcare Center of Orange County is located in Buena Park, California. The city has a total of 80,266 people. Our grading scheme was not very kind to this facility, as it received an overall rating of F. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Buena Park. The city has just one other nursing home. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 99 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
Although we graded this facility incredibly unfavorably overall, it received an impressive short-term care grade this year. We gave it a B in this category. In forming these short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in California with 62.2 percent of its residents returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
Incredibly, we gave this nursing home a C for its long-term care score, which isn't a bad grade. Long-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of nursing care. This includes a broad range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. The last datapoint we assessed was its hospitalization rate. While it had 3.41 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was not too far off the national average.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, it only received a grade of D for its inspection grade. Our inspection grades weigh many items found on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. When you find too many deficiencies on the reports, this is typically the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This nursing home had 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 4 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Nurse Quality
This facility's weakest category was nursing, which is the last area we scored. In this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. The nursing rating assesses many subcategories, but the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. Quantity of nursing care does not appear to be the source of this facility's poor nursing grade. This nursing home provides 5.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is actually better than we expected. In computing our scores, we apply more weight to hours performed by highly trained nurses such as registered nurses. Despite being above average in terms of nursing hours, this nursing home had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than double the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a very poor nursing grade.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Healthcare Center of Orange County Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients who have sustained UTI's. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs may be used to treat several medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Increased rates of depression could be a sign a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and continence. Many in the industry argue this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better