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 an elite facility. Not surprisingly, this is actually the top facility in Laguna Hills. This facility also received very consistent ratings in each of the major categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.
Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- 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
Long-term Care Quality
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care rating. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a dangerous condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Facility Inspections
This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our next category, this nursing home was awarded a strong short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in that area. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is considered to be a fair assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the next category, this nursing home also performed well in the nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B+ in that area. This finalized a first-rate profile. There are quite a few factors included in this area. Most of the criteria reflect staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 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 avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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, 7.62% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percent of long-term stay patients who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 1.67% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term care residents who had a fall which caused severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indication of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 1.21% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely caused by a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this statistic can also be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 10.06% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for many medical conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 13.91% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 4.33% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some argue this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 95.72% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 8.37% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate the erosion of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 14.05% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is important for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 1.49 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 14.05 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 9.85 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 79.63% Percentage of Resident
Measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements.
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- St Joseph HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 15.53 miles away1100 West Stewart Dr Orange California 92868Voluntary non-profit - Church(714) 633-9111
- Memorialcare Orange Coast Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 15.72 miles away9920 Talbert Avenue Fountain Valley California 92708Proprietary(714) 378-7406
- University of California Irvine Med CenterAcute Care Hospitals 16.4 miles away101 City Drive South Orange California 92868Government - Local(714) 456-6112
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