Palomar Heights Post Acute Rehab
1260 E Ohio Avenue, Escondido CA 92027 · (760) 746-1100 · 73.57% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Palomar Heights Post Acute Rehab is an average-sized nursing home in Escondido, California. We awarded this nursing home an A overall grade, ranking it in the top quarter of all nursing homes in the country. Based on our ratings, this place is really as good as it gets. As you can see below, this facility also performed well in our category ratings. It is hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 98 Beds
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For profit - Individual
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home has earned nearly flawless inspections recently. We gave them an A in this category. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor dings are not the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our nursing rating weighs a number of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on our third area, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for our short-term care rating. This is a dominant grade. In determining these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. This nursing home fared much better in the final datapoint we assessed in this category, which was the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in California with 58.2 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our next category, this nursing home was given a high-end long-term care grade. While this wasn't nearly as good as several of its other scores, this remains one of our more favorable scores we offer. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 97.003746 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Palomar Heights Post Acute Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are often linked to lower quality nursing care. More supervision can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to residents for a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly used to treat patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are showing depressive symptoms. Many argue this is a measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term 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 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better