La Casa via Transitional Care Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. There are several datapoints included in this category. Most of these criteria relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection grades are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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.

The third category we analyzed is short-term care. This facility received a first-rate short-term care score. We gave them a dominant strong of A- in this area. Short-term care ratings are important for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Turning to the final area, this facility was given a decent long-term care score. Although this wasn't as impressive as some of its other grades, this is really not a major area of concern. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were not able to find information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Finally, this place keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.