Pasadena Care Center

To go along with its decent overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A- for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. When computing our nursing grades, we look at both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.5 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 often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another one of this nursing home's higher category scores came in the category of short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. It actually performed better than most facilities in this category. Our short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facilities third most favorable area was long-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this area. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we size up the personal care offered to the facility's residents. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In our last category, inspections proved to be this facility's weakest link. It received a C in this category. Inspection ratings relate to a facility's inspection reports. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were category G through L deficiencies. This tells you it avoided the more serious categories of deficiencies. We really did not find anything on this place's inspection report to be too concerning.