Las Palmas

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in that area with a grade of A. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple relatively minor dings are not something to panic about.

This nursing home was given its next best category score in the category of long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable score. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.39024 percent of its patients. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. Our nursing grade is primarily based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below average. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

Our last area is short-term care, in which we gave this nursing home a C in this category. In our short-term care assessment, we attempt to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.