Kaiser Permanente Post-Acute Care Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A+. Our nursing rating consists of many datapoints, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 1.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also gave this nursing home a of A+ for its short-term care grade. With our short-term care assessment, we try to forge a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 6.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The last area we assessed was long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of A. This completed a very strong profile. Very few facilities received an A- or higher in all four categories. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were not able to locate this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.