Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre looks like it is just one of 74 facilities located in Los Angeles, California. This city has far more options to choose from compared to most other cities in the country. This is a very good facility. We gave this it an overall grade of B+, which is a strong score. This facility turned out to be one of the better nursing homes in the city. Fortunately, this nursing home did not have any poor grades in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.
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Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Short-term Care Quality
On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed well in short-term care. In fact, we awarded it an impressive grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home an A-. When computing a facility's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses commit to patients and the level of skill of those nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an impressive grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we looked at is long-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a grade of C. While this wound up being its poorest category score, this is still a middle of the pack score. For residents looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 99.514565 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre, 4.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term stay residents who developed pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents that suffered a fall leading to serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre, 1.09% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term residents who had urinary tract infections. UTI's could be an indicator of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this metric could also be misleading for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre, 6.95% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term stay patients who are prescribed antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely more on these medications due to having more residents with cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre, 18.93% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre, 30.32% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre, 99.32% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre, 1.18% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre, 9.33% of Residents
This metric tracks the percent of long-term care patients that retained mobility levels. Many believe that the ability to move around is vital to patients well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre, 9.33% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre, 4.93% of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre, 66.94% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Los Angeles, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus
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