Las Flores Convalescent Hospital
14165 Purche Ave., Gardena CA 90249 · (310) 323-4570 · 88.47% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Las Flores Convalescent Hospital is a large facility located in Gardena, California. With a really poor overall grade of F, this nursing home isn't high on our list. If you are not happy with this facility's subpar overall grade, you will be pleased to know there are seven other nursing homes in Gardena. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category scores. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 144 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
While we graded this nursing home extremely poorly overall, it received a quality grade in the area of nursing. We awarded it a B in that area. Nursing ratings are tied to nurse staffing levels. With 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this nursing home was above the national average. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the number of its residents suffering falls leading to serious injury, this place performed as well as just about any facility we looked at.
Long-term Care Quality
Surprisingly, we gave this facility a grade of B- for our long-term care grade, which is not too bad of a score. Our long-term care grade assesses a facility's personal care instead of the highly skilled nursing and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. Even though we determined this facility had a favorable volume of nursing hours provided by nurses aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be a bit low. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 54.27928 percent of its residents. This is one figure we'd love to see this nursing home improve. The last statistic we looked at was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had a relatively high 5.43 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Neither its vaccination record nor its hospitalization rate were strengths for this facility in this area.
Short-term Care Quality
Tragically, this facility received an F for its short-term care score. In our short-term care assessment, we attempt to create a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. 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 11.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.
Facility Inspections
The final category we looked at is inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable government inspection reports in recent years. In fact, we had to give it an F here. For facilities with bad inspection scores, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This facility was hit with multiple deficiencies in categories G through L, which rank among the more severe categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies uncovered by CMS had the potential to create actual harm to patients. Finally, this facility also received 14 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Las Flores Convalescent Hospital Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often linked to poor nursing care. Closer supervision can reduce the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could be an indicator lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better