Napa Post Acute

Even though we were not high on this nursing home's overall score, it earned an impressive short-term care grade this year. We awarded it a grade of B in this area, which proved to be a rare shining light in its profile. Short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Adding to its strong profile, this nursing home also earned an excellent nursing rating, with an B. Nursing scores are largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility earned mediocre government inspections in recent years. We gave them a C in this area. We believe that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home had 5 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This indicates that it dodged the more serious classes of deficiencies. Finally, they also received 13 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is certainly not a great sign.

Turning to the last category, we gave this facility a D for the area of long-term care. This is the nursing home's weakest category score. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.