Las Villas Del Norte Health Center is a small facility located in Escondido, California. Featuring an overall rating of A, this facility is ranked among the most elite facilities we found. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the country. Headlining this nursing home's stellar profile is its nursing score, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Las Villas Del Norte Health Center
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Jan 1, 2019 by Nick Lata
Note: Data for Las Villas Del Norte Health Center has not been updated recently. This page shows historical performance which may not be representitive of current service levels.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Aquatic Therapy
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Nurse Quality
We also would like to point out that this facility excelled in our nursing grade. We awarded them an A+ in this area. The nursing rating weighs numerous factors. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility provided 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home was given quality marks in the category of short-term care. As a result, it was given one of our highest scores in that category with a score of A+. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is generally a fair measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Facility Inspections
Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we gave it an impressive grade of A for that category. Inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We wish we had more data for this facility. Without having access to the information regarding deficiencies, it ended up being challenging to really grade it in the inspections category.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we graded is long-term care. This facility was given an above average long-term care grade this year, with a B-. While this wasn't quite as good as several of its other scores, this is still a decent score in this area. Our long-term care grades are more important for residents requiring more traditional services associated with personal care. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 96 percent of its patients. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Las Villas Del Norte Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Las Villas Del Norte Health Center, 2.78% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure tells you the percent of long-term care patients which suffer from pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Las Villas Del Norte Health Center, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term care patients that have suffered falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be a sign of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Las Villas Del Norte Health Center, 12% of Patients had UTIs
This metric gauges the percent of long-term patients who have suffered from a UTI. Although more of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Las Villas Del Norte Health Center, 8% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many patients, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Las Villas Del Norte Health Center, 12.77% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is an indication of the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Las Villas Del Norte Health Center, 0% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Las Villas Del Norte Health Center, 98% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Las Villas Del Norte Health Center, 6.25% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Las Villas Del Norte Health Center, 33.88% of Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels.
Frequency Of ER Visits
In Las Villas Del Norte Health Center, 61.71 ER visits per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of long-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Las Villas Del Norte Health Center, 33.88% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Las Villas Del Norte Health Center, 19.33% of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Las Villas Del Norte Health Center, 56.08% of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Escondido, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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