Kearny Mesa Convalescent and Nursing Home
7675 Family Circle Drive, San Diego CA 92111 · (858) 278-8121 · 82.85% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Kearny Mesa Convalescent and Nursing Home is an average-sized facility in San Diego, California. This nursing home received an A- overall, which is among the best ratings we offer. A score in this range requires superb marks across the board. Even with San Diego offering 22 nursing homes to choose from, this nursing home managed to stand out as a first-rate option. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 98 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
To go along with its strong overall score, we gave this nursing home an A+ for its short-term care rating. Our short-term care grades are likely most important for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in the country in this area with 66.3 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this metric.
Facility Inspections
This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Our nursing score includes many datapoints, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.7 hours per patient on a daily basis. This is more nursing care than nearly any other nursing home provides. Lastly, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents sustaining falls which lead to major injury, this nursing home performed as well as any facility in California. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a decent score in that category, with a C. Although this isn't as dominant as a few of its other scores, it is still nothing to be ashamed of. Our long-term care grades are more important for folks in need of more conventional services related to activities of daily living. One of the data points we considered on top of this facility's above average nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.12281 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Kearny Mesa Convalescent and Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are often caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care patients that have sustained a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it is difficult to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients which were administered antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that retained mobility levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's usually correlates with better rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better