12023 Lakewood Blvd., Downey CA 90242 · (562) 869-0978 · 95.37% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Note: Lakewood Healthcare Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
Lakewood Healthcare Center is a very-large facility in Downey, California. With an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a very poor facility. Based on our analysis, this facility is not a good fit for anyone. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was nursing, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 290 Beds
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For profit - Partnership
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Nurse Quality
B-
Historical
Even though we gave this nursing home an abysmal overall score, we awarded it a B- for our nursing category. The nursing score features many datapoints. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides an impressive 4.4 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 admirably in this metric.
Long-term Care Quality
B-
Historical
This facility also didn't grade out poorly in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of B- in that area, which wound up being another one of its more favorable scores. Our long-term care ratings are important for residents looking for personal care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.53227 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 5.45 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic can be skewed for some facilities based on the medical complexity of residents.
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Short-term Care Quality
D
Historical
Sadly, this facility's next best category was short-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared somewhat badly. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is typically a useful assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. In this nursing home's case, we found that it offered less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Facility Inspections
F
Historical
In the last category of inspections, this facility fared very poorly. Sadly, it received an F in our inspection category. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home was assessed multiple deficiencies in categories G through L, which rank among the more severe categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies identified by the government inspectors had the potential to create actual harm to residents. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Aug 20
Provider:
F
State:
B
National:
B
Overall Rating
Nurse Rating
Long-Term Rating
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Inspection Rating
Lakewood Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Provider
A+
1.95%
State
B+
6.95%
National
B
7.32%
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Provider
A-
1.87%
State
A-
1.78%
National
B
3.36%
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Provider
A
0.59%
State
A-
1.69%
National
B
2.65%
Percent of Patients with UTIs Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Provider
B+
11.03%
State
A-
10.4%
National
B
14.18%
Percent of Patients Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Provider
A-
13.54%
State
A-
14.21%
National
B
19.68%
Percent of Patients Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Provider
B+
0.77%
State
A
0.97%
National
B+
5.07%
Percent of Patients Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Provider
B+
98.96%
State
B+
94.67%
National
B
92.05%
Percent of Patients Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Provider
B
15.02%
State
A-
9.21%
National
B
14.45%
Percentage of Patients Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
Provider
D
11.35%
State
C
12.94%
National
B
17.08%
Percentage of Residents Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Provider
F
5.45
State
B-
1.88
National
B
1.70
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Provider
A
11.35
State
A-
12.94
National
B
17.08
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.