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Lakewood Healthcare Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: D
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12023 Lakewood Blvd.,
Downey CA 90242

(562) 869-0978

98.62% estimated occupancy 1

Lakewood Healthcare Center is in Downey, California. The city has a total of 111,772 people. This is a relatively poor facility, with an overall grade of D. If you are not happy with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Downey. The city has just three other nursing homes. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Partnership
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

While we weren't high on this facility overall, we awarded it an impressive grade of A- for our long-term care rating. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. One of the datapoints we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.90917 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home an B. Our nursing rating focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 facility California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a resident more frequently.

Facility Inspections

Grade: F

This nursing home received an F for its inspection rating. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection grade. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with multiple deficiencies in categories G through L, which are among the more severe categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies identified by the government inspectors had potential to cause actual harm to residents. Finally, this facility also received 9 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: F

Switching gears to the next category, this nursing home really did not perform well in this category either. Due to a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. Short-term care scores are important for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Considering its score in this area, we were not stunned to learn that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 2.1 percent of its patients returning home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Lakewood Healthcare Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Lakewood Healthcare Center, 3.78% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A

In Lakewood Healthcare Center, 0.82% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric gauges the percent of long-term patients which have sustained falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A-plus

In Lakewood Healthcare Center, 0.1% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term care residents who had urinary tract infections. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it is difficult to compare between facilities due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Lakewood Healthcare Center, 24.73% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of patients suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Lakewood Healthcare Center, 16.64% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: F

In Lakewood Healthcare Center, 61.72% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In Lakewood Healthcare Center, 99.62% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these vaccines vital to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-plus

In Lakewood Healthcare Center, 2.52% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: F

In Lakewood Healthcare Center, 2.3% of Residents

This is the percentage of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: C

In Lakewood Healthcare Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to maintaining the physical well-being of patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Lakewood Healthcare Center, 2.3% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-plus

In Lakewood Healthcare Center, 5.35% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: F

In Lakewood Healthcare Center, 51.34% of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of independence with activities of daily living generally correlates with successful rehabilitation services.

Scores for Downey, CA

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

Looking for more options? Downey, California has 3 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Pih Hospital - DowneyAcute Care Hospitals 0.69 miles away11500 Brookshire Avenue Downey California 90241Voluntary non-profit - Private(526) 904-5000
  • Coast Plaza HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.08 miles away13100 Studerbaker Road Norwalk California 90650Proprietary(310) 356-0550
  • Lakewood Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.61 miles away3700 E South St Lakewood California 90712Proprietary(562) 602-6751
  • Pih Health Hospital-WhittierAcute Care Hospitals 5.52 miles away12401 Washington Blvd Whittier California 90602Voluntary non-profit - Private(526) 698-0811
  • Beverly HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.45 miles away309 W Beverly Blvd Montebello California 90640Voluntary non-profit - Private(323) 726-1222
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.47 miles away1680 East 120th Street Los Angeles California 90059Voluntary non-profit - Private(424) 835-6808
  • Community Hospital of Huntington ParkAcute Care Hospitals 6.98 miles away2623 E Slauson Ave Huntington Park California 90255Proprietary(323) 583-1931
  • Los Angeles Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.24 miles away4081 E Olympic Blvd Los Angeles California 90023Proprietary(323) 267-0477

Nearby Dialysis

  • Davita-Downey Landing Dialysis Center0.51 miles away11611 Bellflower Blvd. Downey California 90241CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (562) 862-0001
  • Kaiser Foundation Hospital Medical Ctr.- Downey0.62 miles awayCapd Department-Basement, 9333 E. Imperial Hwy Downey California 90242Dialysis Stations: 6 (562) 657-9170
  • Davita-Iowa Street Dialysis0.84 miles away8333 Iowa Street, Suite 100 Downey California 90241CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (562) 923-5901
  • Davita-Downey Dialysis Center1.69 miles away9041 Imperial Hwy. Downey California 90242CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 19 (562) 622-4436
  • Fmc-Bellflower1.85 miles away10116 Rosecrans Avenue Bellflower California 90706CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 36 (562) 920-2070
  • Davita-Paramount Dialysis Center2.43 miles away15625 Lakewood Blvd. Paramount California 90723CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 37 (562) 790-2478
  • Davita-Bellflower Dialysis Center2.59 miles away15736 Woodruff Avenue Bellflower California 90706CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (562) 804-3099
  • Satellite Healthcare South Gate2.63 miles away8716 Garfield Avenue, Suite 100 South Gate California 90280CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (562) 674-2600