Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center is in Laguna Hills, California. The city has 29,291 people. With an overall score of A-, this is without a doubt a high quality facility. Not surprisingly, this is actually the top facility in Laguna Hills. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its short-term care grade, which is addressed in the next section.
Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Lymphedema Care
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive short-term care score. This proved to be its best category. In that area, we awarded this facility an impressive grade of A. Our short-term care grades are vital for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. The nursing grade includes numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving patients more frequently.
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Facility Inspections
Racking up another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it received an impressive grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. This facility received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we scored is long-term care. We awarded this nursing home an acceptable score in that area, with a B-. While this wasn't as dominant as several of its other scores, it is nevertheless not a poor grade. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is more than most nursing homes. 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 an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 7.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric gauges the percent of long-term care patients who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a solid measure of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 1.7% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure gauges the percent of long-term residents who have had falls which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 1.24% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 10.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of residents suffering from cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 13.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 4.64% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. Higher levels of depression may imply a less hospitable environment.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 95.44% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 7.92% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 12.45% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients that were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 1.61 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is key to the physical health of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 12.45 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 9.83 Percentage of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 79.79% Percentage of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements.
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