Legacy Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is it received a very impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home also was awarded a impressive short-term care score. This actually ended up being this facility's second best category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. In crafting these short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in California in this area with 67.6 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

This facility also received a dominant long-term care grade. This actually ended up being its third strongest category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A-. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to offering well above average levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.42197 percent of its patients. This percentage is also far higher than the majority of nursing homes. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.98 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the last category, this nursing home also was given a first-rate nursing score, with a B+. This topped off a first-rate profile. We looked at the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in calculating our rating in this category. This facility offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.2 hours per resident on a daily basis. This is more nursing care than nearly any other place provides. Lastly, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any facility the state in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these statistics as good measures of the quality of nursing care offered.