Park Avenue Healthcare & Wellness Center
1550 North Park Avenue, Pomona CA 91768 · (909) 623-0791 · 93.41% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Park Avenue Healthcare & Wellness Center is a very-large nursing home located in Pomona, California. We gave this facility a rock bottom overall rating based on the data we looked at. Pomona received a city grade of C, so there are other options in the city worth looking at. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is long-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 231 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it earned a better long-term care grade this year. We gave it a C in that category, which is the closest thing to a bright spot we could find for this place. Our long-term care ratings are vital for patients looking for non-healthcare services such as personal care. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 3.36 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this number can be skewed for some nursing homes due to the preexisting medical conditions of patients.
Nurse Quality
Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with the facility's nurse staffing. With 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this place surpassed the national average. We also look at the qualifications of nurses and add more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed admirably in this statistic.
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's inspection grade where it received a lowly F. For facilities with poor inspection scores, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular nursing home had 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 34 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Switching gears to our fourth category, this nursing home didn't perform very well here either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. In determining our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. With a score this poor in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this nursing home was well below average in several staffing metrics we looked at. In fact, it offered significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 14.6 percent of its residents returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Park Avenue Healthcare & Wellness Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are often caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is vital to residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is 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 datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better