Kindred Hospital Brea D/P Snf

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. With our short-term care score, we try to craft a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

To add to its high-end performance in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A- for its long-term care grade. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another quality feature of this facility is its inspection score. In that area, we awarded this facility an A-. Inspection grades are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on to the last area, this nursing home also performed admirably in our nursing category. We gave it a B+ for that category. This finalized a first-rate report card. There are several factors within this area. Most of these factors are tied to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.