Milpitas Care Center

While we gave this facility a poor overall grade, we actually awarded it a somewhat respectable score in the area of inspections, where we gave it a B-. This was certainly better than its other categories. Inspection ratings are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

We also awarded this facility a grade of B- for our nursing rating. Nursing scores are primarily based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. While this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this statistic. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning patients more often.

Moving on to the category of long-term care, this nursing home was given just a D in this area. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 93.61702 percent of its patients, which is a bit below what we anticipated. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

The last area we looked at is short-term care, in which this nursing home was given a rock bottom score in this category as well. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area, which is definitely very concerning. Our short-term care grades are believed to be most meaningful for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. With its score in this category, we were not surprised to find that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.