Lompoc Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

With an address in Lompoc, California, Lompoc Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is one of just two available facilities in this area. This nursing home received an A- overall, which is one of the top ratings we offer. A grade in this range requires excellent scores across the board. Based on our assessment, this nursing home looks like a great choice for most people. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home also was elite in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Only a select group of facilities performed better in this area. In our short-term care assessment, we seek to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Remarkably, this facility provides its residents with at least 50% more physical therapist hours per week than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes with 55.2 percent of its patients able to return home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Our nursing score includes many subcategories. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Lastly, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

The last area we assessed was long-term care. We awarded this facility one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a B. Although this was not as strong as many of its other grades, it is nevertheless a positive grade. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.