Life Care Center of Yuma

One of the reasons this place is a strong facility is that it received a very impressive inspection score. Inspections turned out to be its best category. In that area, we awarded it a grade of A. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home really excelled in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Only a select group of facilities performed more favorably in this area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 90.56603 percent of its residents. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find 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.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. The nursing score analyzes quite a few components, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Switching gears to the final area, this facility was given an acceptable short-term care score. Although this is not as impressive as a few of its other scores, this is really not the end of the world. In our short-term care score, we strive to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.