Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center is a small nursing home located in Palo Alto, California. We gave this nursing home an A- overall grade, ranking it in the top third of all nursing homes in the nation. We can't find many bad things to say about this facility. Its ratings are impeccable. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card is its short-term care grade. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph
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Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
One of the many reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it earned an A+ in short-term care. In forming these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. This proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A. In determining our nursing grades, we analyze both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 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 place 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 many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Facility Inspections
This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we looked at turned out to be this nursing home's poorest area. However, even in its worst category we still awarded it a respectable grade of C in our long-term care category. For patients seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This place keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center, 6.82% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center, 2.04% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often linked to poor nursing care. Additional nurse staffing can limit the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center, 7.61% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are used for several medical conditions, including dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center, 11.58% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients given antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center, 17.24% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center, 100% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center, 1.11% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center, 1.28% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who retained mobility levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center, 1.28% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center, 11.91% of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center, 87.68% of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Stanford Health CareAcute Care Hospitals 1.28 miles away300 Pasteur Drive Stanford California 94305Voluntary non-profit - Private(650) 723-5708
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Redwood CityAcute Care Hospitals 5.02 miles away1100 Veterans Boulevard Redwood City California 94063Voluntary non-profit - Private(650) 299-2000
- Sequoia HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.98 miles away170 Alameda De Las Pulgas Redwood City California 94062Voluntary non-profit - Private(650) 367-5551
- El Camino HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.72 miles away2500 Grant Road Mountain View California 94040Government - Hospital District or Authority(650) 940-7000
- San Mateo Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.01 miles away222 W 39th Ave San Mateo California 94403Government - Local(650) 573-2222
- Kaiser Permanente Psychiatric Health Facility-SantPsychiatric 11.32 miles away3840 Homestead Road Santa Clara California 95051Proprietary(408) 851-4850
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital-Santa ClaraAcute Care Hospitals 11.62 miles away700 Lawrence Expressway Santa Clara California 95051Voluntary non-profit - Private(408) 236-6400
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital - FremontAcute Care Hospitals 12.26 miles away39400 Paseo Padre Pkwy Fremont California 94538Voluntary non-profit - Private(510) 784-4000
Nearby Dialysis
- Satellite Dialysis Menlo Park2.53 miles away1040 Hamilton Court Menlo Park California 94025CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (650) 384-4800
- Lucile Packard Stanford Pediatric Dialysis4.42 miles away725 Welch Road Pediatric Dialysis Rm 1229 Palo Alto California 94304Dialysis Stations: 6 (650) 498-5544
- Redwood City Dialysis Center5.06 miles away1000 Marshall Street Redwood City California 94063CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (650) 365-0129
- Wellbound of Mountain View5.98 miles away247 West El Camino Real Suite 200 Mountain View California 94040Dialysis Stations: 4 (650) 417-6460
- Satellite Dialysis Mountain View5.98 miles away247 West El Camino Real Suite 100 Mountain View California 94040CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (650) 417-6420
- Satellite Dialysis Redwood City6.53 miles away1125 Industrial Rd Suite G San Carlos California 94070CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (650) 366-0789
- Davita El Camino Dialysis6.68 miles away412 West El Camino Real Mountain View California 94043Dialysis Stations: 24 (650) 962-1903
- Satellite Dialysis Sunnyvale9.13 miles away155 North Wolfe Rd Sunnyvale California 94086CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (408) 617-1887