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Height Street Skilled Care

  • Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: C
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Height Street Skilled Care's website

1611 Height Street,
Bakersfield CA 93305

(661) 748-1300

88.98% estimated occupancy 1

Height Street Skilled Care is located in the large metropolitan area of Bakersfield, California. Featuring an overall grade of C, this appears to be a decent nursing home. If you take a look at the other options in Bakersfield, we hope you will find this facility to be a better option than most of the nursing homes in the city. This city simply does not have a great selection of nursing homes. This nursing home was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection scores account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-minus

This facility's second best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing score is mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its residents.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

The next area we analyzed is long-term care, where this nursing home received a C in this area. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 93.90681 percent of its patients. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: C

Our final area is short-term care, in which we awarded this facility a grade of C in that category. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The real question is whether this adversely impacted quality of care. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Sep 22

Height Street Skilled Care Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: F

In Height Street Skilled Care, 7.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term stay patients who suffer from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A-minus

In Height Street Skilled Care, 1.7% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of patients who have had a fall leading to serious injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-minus

In Height Street Skilled Care, 1.24% of Patients had UTIs

This gauges the percentage of long-term residents which had a urinary tract infection. While more infections could reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it is difficult to compare different nursing homes due to nursing homes having reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A

In Height Street Skilled Care, 10.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Height Street Skilled Care, 13.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly used to treat residents suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A-minus

In Height Street Skilled Care, 4.64% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Some argue that this is a measure of patient quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Height Street Skilled Care, 95.44% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Height Street Skilled Care, 7.92% Percentage of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom. Some experts would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: D

In Height Street Skilled Care, 12.45% Percentage of Residents

This is the percent of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B

In Height Street Skilled Care, 1.61 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A

In Height Street Skilled Care, 12.45 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-plus

In Height Street Skilled Care, 9.83 Percentage of Patients

This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: F

In Height Street Skilled Care, 79.79% Percentage of Resident

This datapoint measures the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some believe this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.

Scores for Bakersfield, CA

  • Overall Rating has a grade of D
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of D
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus

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Nearby Hospitals

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Nearby Dialysis

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