La Paz Geropsychiatric Center

To pair with its strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. We weighed the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses were with residents, in computing our score in this area. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another quality feature for this facility is that it received a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, this proved to be its second best category score. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. Our short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Furthermore, this facility also earned impressive inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

The next area we scored was long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this area. In our long-term care score, we weigh the amount of care offered by a nursing home, along with a series of qualitative metrics. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated 56.07639 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is quite a bit below what we were hoping for. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.