Monrovia Gardens Healthcare Center

We would like to point out that this nursing home's nursing grade exceeded its overall score. This facility earned a B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our nursing grade weighs a handful of datapoints, however, the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Additionally, we also wanted to note that this facility was awarded positive short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our more impressive grades in this category, with a B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second highest score. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is considered to be a reliable assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 5.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

We also awarded this facility a decent grade in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. In our long-term care assessment, we focus more on the sheer quantity of services offered by a facility, along with a series of qualitative metrics. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility did not receive a favorable inspection grade. We gave it a just D in this category. Inspection grades relate to a nursing home's inspections. We weight poor inspection grades heavily in our assessment. Since the inspection reports are compiled by independent government inspectors, we consider this data to be reliable. Inspection grades weigh many items found on the facility's inspection reports. If you see too many deficiencies on the reports, this is typically the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This facility had 8 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received significant government fines in excess of $50,000. This usually indicates that inspectors grew tired after multiple years of failed health inspections.