Jacob Health Care Center is on a list of 19 facilities in San Diego, California. This nursing home proved to be a quality facility, with an overall grade of B+. If you take a look at the other options in San Diego, we are confident you will find this place to be a better option than most of the facilities in the city. Fortunately, this facility didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.
Jacob Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Partnership
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received a very impressive short-term care rating. In fact, short-term care is its best category. In that area, we awarded this facility an impressive grade of A. In crafting these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. It earned a nearly flawless inspection report this year. It received one of our best scores in that area with an A-. Few nursing homes with an overall score in this range performed this well in multiple categories. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.
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Nurse Quality
This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. In computing our nursing ratings, we weigh both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a resident more often.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we scored was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a solid grade of C. This proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. In our long-term care assessment, we assess the sheer quantity of care provided by a facility, as well as some qualitative measures. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This place was able to keep 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 figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Jacob Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Jacob Health Care Center, 7.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Jacob Health Care Center, 1.7% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who have had a fall leading to serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Jacob Health Care Center, 1.24% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely associated with lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric can also be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Jacob Health Care Center, 10.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used for treating a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Jacob Health Care Center, 13.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Jacob Health Care Center, 4.64% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating signs of depression. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Jacob Health Care Center, 95.44% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Jacob Health Care Center, 7.92% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Jacob Health Care Center, 12.45% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Jacob Health Care Center, 1.61 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Jacob Health Care Center, 12.45 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Jacob Health Care Center, 9.83 Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Jacob Health Care Center, 79.79% Percentage of Resident
Measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements.
Scores for San Diego, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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