Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation - Medical Hill

Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation - Medical Hill is one of a variety of options to choose from in Oakland, California. We gave this facility a B- overall, which is a decent grade. This is comparable with the city grade in Oakland, which is a B. You can certainly do worse than this facility. This facility was stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection grade. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A-. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category scores came in the category of long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 92.30769 percent of its residents. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.58 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Another reason we rated this facility so highly is that it earned an A+ nursing score. When calculating a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average.

The final category we rated was short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. Short-term care grades are typically used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. 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 last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 35.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.