Focused Care at Pasadena

While we were fairly low on this facility overall, we awarded it an A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Sadly, this nursing home's second most respectable category is long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed relatively badly. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 97.397766 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. We looked at the qualifications of nurses at the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses worked with residents, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these datapoints to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Moving on to the next category, this facility really didn't perform well in this category either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is considered to be a fair measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. Considering its score in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the data we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 5.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.