Intercommunity Care Center

Intercommunity Care Center is located in Long Beach, California, which is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country. We gave this nursing home an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. If you aren't happy with this nursing home, you should be able to find another option in Long Beach, as the city has more than 25 nursing homes. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, we will discuss long-term care in the next section.

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of B- for our long-term care rating. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 96.55172 percent of its patients. This nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility excelled in the area of nursing, where it earned an D. Our nursing score is primarily tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found this facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic dragged down this facility's nursing rating substantially.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care grade. This is not a score to write home about. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is generally a fair assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. With its weak rating in this area, we weren't shocked to learn this nursing home offered far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care score.

In our last category of inspections, this nursing home received an F here. For places that received this bad of an inspection rating, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 6 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.