Kindred Hospital Brea D/P Snf

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality facility is that it received a very impressive inspection grade. Inspections turned out to be its best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an A. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This facility fared well in the category of short-term care. As a result, we gave it a score of A- for that category, which happens to be one of our best scores. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we rated was long-term care. This nursing home was given a better than average long-term care rating in our assessment, with a C. Even though this isn't nearly as elite as many of its other category grades, this remains a respectable score in that category. In computing our long-term care scores, we scrutinize the personal care received by the facility's residents. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.