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Lake Balboa Care Center

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  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-plus
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16955 Vanowen Street,
Van Nuys CA 91406

(818) 343-0700

94.4% estimated occupancy 1

Lake Balboa Care Center is a small nursing home located in Van Nuys, California. This facility received an overall grade of B+, which is a well above average score. This actually turned out to be the highest rated facility in Van Nuys. The best part of this nursing home's strong profile is its short-term care grade. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

Awards

Best Nursing Home in Van Nuys, California badge

Best Nursing Home in Van Nuys, California Awards 2020

Best Nursing Home in Van Nuys, California badge

Best Nursing Home in Van Nuys, California Awards 2021

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A

To go along with its strong overall score, we gave this facility an impressive grade of A for our short-term care grade. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 5.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A

This facility also excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that area, which is one of our highest scores. This is one of the few facilities with an overall score in this range which earned multiple category grades this high. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. The nursing grade includes quite a few datapoints, many of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning a patient even once per day.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

Moving on to our fourth area, we awarded this nursing home a D for the area of long-term care. This is the facility's worst category rating. Nevertheless, we would not over-emphasize a single bad score. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted data regarding vaccinations. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Lake Balboa Care Center Quality Metrics

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-minus

In Lake Balboa Care Center, 7.91% of Patients

This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A-minus

In Lake Balboa Care Center, 85.19% of Resident

This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements.

Scores for Van Nuys, CA

  • Overall Rating has a grade of C
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of D
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus

Looking for more options? Van Nuys, California has 5 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Providence Tarzana Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.3 miles away18321 Clark Street Tarzana California 91356Voluntary non-profit - Private(818) 881-0800
  • Northridge Hospital Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.55 miles away18300 Roscoe Blvd Northridge California 91325Voluntary non-profit - Private(818) 885-8500
  • Sherman Oaks HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.96 miles away4929 Van Nuys Blvd Sherman Oaks California 91403Voluntary non-profit - Private(818) 981-7111
  • Providence Holy Cross Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.34 miles away15031 Rinaldi St Mission Hills California 91346Voluntary non-profit - Church(818) 365-8051
  • Pacifica Hospital of the ValleyAcute Care Hospitals 6.89 miles away9449 San Fernando Rd Sun Valley California 91352Proprietary(818) 767-3310
  • Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UclaPsychiatric 9.59 miles away150 Medical Plaza-Rm-4230c Los Angeles California 90095Government - State(310) 825-6962
  • Lac/Olive View-Ucla Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.63 miles away14445 Olive View Drive Sylmar California 91342Voluntary non-profit - Other(818) 364-1555
  • Ronald Reagan U C L a Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.65 miles away757 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles California 90095Government - State(310) 825-6301

Nearby Dialysis

  • u.s. Renal Care Northridge Dialysis1.88 miles away18546 Roscoe Blvd., Suite 108 Northridge California 91324CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (818) 886-3771
  • Davita-South Valley Dialysis2.29 miles away17815 Ventura Blvd., Suite 100 Encino California 91316CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (818) 757-4520
  • Davita-Valley Dialysis Center2.7 miles away6840 Sepulveda Blvd, Suite 101 Van Nuys California 91405CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (818) 779-1450
  • Fmc-Van Nuys2.94 miles away14812 Oxnard Street Van Nuys California 91411CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (818) 781-7888
  • Davita Van Nuys Dialysis3.21 miles away14434 Sherman Way Van Nuys California 91405Dialysis Stations: 37 (818) 787-8225
  • u.s. Renal Care Van Nuys Dialysis3.35 miles away14624 Sherman Way, Suite 106 Van Nuys California 91405CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 14 (818) 994-2333
  • Nrc-Northridge Dialysis Center3.4 miles away9325 Reseda Blvd. Northridge California 91324CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (818) 993-6700
  • u.s. Renal Care Panorama City Dialysis3.59 miles away14600 Roscoe Blvd. Panorama City California 91402CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 36 (818) 901-9822