Indio Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

This facility's best category grade came in the category of government inspections. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Inspection grades are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility's short-term care rating appears to be one of its best scores. The nursing home received a grade of B- in this category. Our short-term care ratings are vital for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 6.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

The third highest category we awarded this facility in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective 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 volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an above average figure. This facility was able to keep 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 number.

The last area we graded was nursing, which is this facility's worst category. We gave this nursing home a D in this area. The nursing category is based on a handful of components, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This facility offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This place also had terrible scores in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this facility's nursing rating quite a bit.