Kindred Transitional Care & Rehabilitation-Lawton

Kindred Transitional Care & Rehabilitation-Lawton is a small nursing home located in San Francisco, California. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded facilities we assessed. This nursing home received one of the most impressive scores that we offer. In fact, we were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it as one of the 10 best facilities in San Francisco. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's stellar profile is its short-term care grade. short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this facility an A+ for its short-term care rating. Short-term care grades are commonly used to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This facility excelled in two key staffing areas we looked at. It supplied about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than a typical facility. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in California in this area with 65 percent of its patients returning home.

This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing score is based on many factors. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This facility boasts a really impressive 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any facility. In addition to offering impressive levels of nursing care, this place was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

Moving on to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that category, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an A for that category. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. In this area, we awarded this facility an impressive grade of B. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the criteria we considered on top of this nursing home's quality nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.373985 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for seniors. This combination proved to be effective as this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 2.2 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had more complicated patients.