Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center
911 Bryant Street, Palo Alto CA 94301 · (650) 327-0511 · 88.63% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center is a small facility located in Palo Alto, California. With an overall grade of A-, this facility is one of the higher-rated nursing homes we assessed. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top quarter of all facilities in the nation. This place's strong profile was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which you can find in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 66 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
To go along with its strong overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for its short-term care rating. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home is substantially above the national average in terms of its quantity of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. In fact, it provided about 50% more care per resident from both of these care providers than the average facility provided. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in California in this area with 71.1 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this facility an A for inspections. Inspection scores are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Places that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.
Nurse Quality
In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. There are a number of factors included in this category. Most of the subcategories relate to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Out of this total, nearly one quarter of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. Lastly, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering falls leading to serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home in the state. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we scored is long-term care. We gave this nursing home one of our better grades in this category, with a grade of B. While this wasn't on par with many of its other scores, it is nevertheless a perfectly acceptable grade. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly population. The last statistic we looked at is the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 2.91 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this area, this figure can be skewed for some nursing homes due to some of the medical complexity of patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term patients which have pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of long-term care residents which have suffered a fall which caused serious injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . UTI's are often the result of poor nursing care. However, this metric could be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to patients for many medical conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents who are given antianxiety medication. These drugs are commonly given to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of independence with ADL's typically correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better