Niles Canyon Post Acute

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Niles Canyon Post Acute's website

38650 Mission Boulevard,
Fremont CA 94536

(510) 793-3000

76.3% estimated occupancy ¹

Niles Canyon Post Acute is a senior living facility located in Fremont, California, a city with a population of 214,112 people. Featuring an overall grade of A-, this nursing home is ranked among the higher-graded nursing homes we assessed. In fact, this is one of the five highest graded nursing homes in the city. As you can see below, this place also performed well in our category scores. It would be hard to poke holes in this nursing home's profile.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Limited Liability company
Offers Hospice
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Dialysis Transportation
Medical Transportation
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Dentistry
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Podiatry
Mental Health
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Laboratory
X-Ray
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Optometry
Audiology
Colostomy Care
Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Catheter Care

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Long-term Care Quality

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of long-term care. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Facility Inspections

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A-. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

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Short-term Care Quality

This facility received a strong short-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that area with a score of B+. Our short-term care grades are presumably more meaningful for individuals needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Nurse Quality

Turning to our last area, this facility also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it a B+ in that category. This finalized a very impressive profile. In calculating our nursing grades, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place 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 the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of moving patients more frequently.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Niles Canyon Post Acute Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Niles Canyon Post Acute, 7.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Niles Canyon Post Acute, 1.7% of Patients had Serious Falls

This gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents that sustained falls resulting in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Niles Canyon Post Acute, 1.24% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric can also be misleading for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Niles Canyon Post Acute, 10.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, such as dementia. Tragically, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Niles Canyon Post Acute, 13.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are given to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Niles Canyon Post Acute, 4.64% of Patients

This is the percent of patients who are showing symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Niles Canyon Post Acute, 95.44% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines indispensable.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Niles Canyon Post Acute, 7.92% Percentage of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Niles Canyon Post Acute, 12.45% Percentage of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

In Niles Canyon Post Acute, 1.61 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is important to the physical well-being of nursing home patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Niles Canyon Post Acute, 12.45 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Niles Canyon Post Acute, 9.83 Percentage of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Niles Canyon Post Acute, 79.79% Percentage of Resident

This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements.

Scores for Fremont, CA

Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
Nurse Rating has a grade of A-minus
Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
Inspection Rating has a grade of A

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Nearby Hospitals

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St Rose HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.11 miles away27200 Calaroga Ave Hayward California 94545Voluntary non-profit - Church(510) 782-6200
Stanford Health Care - ValleycareAcute Care Hospitals 9.58 miles away5555 West Las Positas Boulevard Pleasanton California 94588Voluntary non-profit - Private(925) 447-7000
San Leandro HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.03 miles away13855 E 14th Street San Leandro California 94578Government - Hospital District or Authority(510) 357-6500
San Ramon Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 14.3 miles away6001 Norris Canyon Road San Ramon California 94583Proprietary(925) 275-9200
Kaiser Foundation Hospital - San LeandroAcute Care Hospitals 14.74 miles away2500 Merced Street San Leandro California 94577Voluntary non-profit - Private(510) 454-1000
Stanford Health CareAcute Care Hospitals 14.77 miles away300 Pasteur Drive Stanford California 94305Voluntary non-profit - Private(650) 723-5708

Nearby Dialysis

Davita Fremont Dialysis1.39 miles away2599 Stevenson Blvd Fremont California 94538CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (510) 796-4385
Wellbound of Menlo Park LLC1.43 miles away39510 Paseo Padre Pkwy, Suite 100 Fremont California 94538Dialysis Stations: 4 (510) 953-7800
Fmc Fremont1.49 miles away39505 Paseo Padre Parkway Fremont California 94538CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (510) 659-1240
Union City Dialysis Center3.5 miles away32930 Alvarado-Niles Road #300 Union City California 94587CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 38 (510) 489-6996
Fmc Ardenwood3.61 miles away37478 Cedar Blvd Ste A Newark California 94560CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (510) 744-0790
Hayward6.54 miles away1661 Industrial Parkway West Hayward California 94544CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (510) 266-5743
Satellite Dialysis8.49 miles away1860 Milmont Drive Milpitas California 95035CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (408) 935-0600
Pleasanton Dialysis Center8.59 miles away5720 Stoneridge Mall Road #160 Pleasanton California 94588CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (925) 737-0120