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To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing grade. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving residents more frequently.

In addition, this facility excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Inspection grades are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it was given a grade of B. It performed better than most nursing homes in this category. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.86363 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last area we analyzed is short-term care, in which this facility was given a B-. Even though this is its least impressive category grade, this is still not a poor grade. With our short-term care score, we seek to create a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.