Orchard Hospital D/P Snf

Orchard Hospital D/P Snf is the lone facility located in Gridley, California. This is a well below average nursing home, with an overall grade of D. In addition, this facility is also located in a hospital, which often means the facility offers more extensive healthcare services. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, we will discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.

Although we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to note its relatively favorable long-term care grade this year. We gave it a B in this category. For patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. Although we determined this facility has an above average amount of nursing hours provided by nurses and other nursing staff, we found its vaccine statistics to be somewhat below average. It provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 58.90411 percent of its residents. This is one statistic we would really like to see this facility bring up. The last datapoint we looked at is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.52 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

We also ended up giving this facility a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B-. Nursing ratings are mostly based on a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provides 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is better than average. In calculating our scores, we apply more weight to hours performed by more highly skilled nurses such as registered nurses. Finally, we also weighed some quality-based measures. This place performed well in a few of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility outpaced the national average. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided with better nursing care.

The third category we graded was short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of C in this category. In determining these short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final item we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

Turning our final category of inspections, this nursing home received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this grade more heavily than other categories. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection grade. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility had 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, we also need to point out that this place received large government fines of over $50,000. This often suggests that inspectors became frustrated after multiple years of failed government inspections.