Penn Mar Therapeutic Center is a small nursing home located in El Monte, California. With an B+ overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top third of all facilities in the United States. In our view, this nursing home looks like a good fit for most people. This place's strong report card was highlighted by its nursing score, which you can find in the next section.
Penn Mar Therapeutic Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
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Nurse Quality
In addition to performing well in its overall score, this facility earned even higher grades in nursing. In fact, we gave it one of our highest scores in this category with an A. The nursing rating consists of many subcategories, but the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 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 facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections. We gave it an A for that category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition, this facility also received favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we rated is long-term care. This facility was awarded an impressive long-term care score in our assessment, with a grade of B-. While this wasn't as elite as several of its other category grades, this is still an acceptable score for that category. Long-term care grades are commonly used to judge a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 5.797101 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Penn Mar Therapeutic Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Penn Mar Therapeutic Center, 1.7% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of nursing care . Major falls are often caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Penn Mar Therapeutic Center, 1.24% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Penn Mar Therapeutic Center, 10.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Penn Mar Therapeutic Center, 13.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Penn Mar Therapeutic Center, 4.64% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Penn Mar Therapeutic Center, 95.44% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these vaccines vital to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Penn Mar Therapeutic Center, 7.92% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Penn Mar Therapeutic Center, 12.45 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Scores for El Monte, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? El Monte, California has 7 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Methodist Hospital of Southern CaAcute Care Hospitals 4.53 miles away300 W Huntington Dr Arcadia California 91006Voluntary non-profit - Private(626) 445-4441
- San Gabriel Valley Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.67 miles away438 W Las Tunas Drive San Gabriel California 91776Proprietary(626) 289-5454
- Garfield Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.29 miles away525 N Garfield Ave Monterey Park California 91754Proprietary(626) 573-2222
- Beverly HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.36 miles away309 W Beverly Blvd Montebello California 90640Voluntary non-profit - Private(323) 726-1222
- Emanate Health Inter-Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.89 miles away210 W San Bernardino Road Covina California 91723Proprietary(626) 814-2468
- Pih Health Hospital-WhittierAcute Care Hospitals 7.63 miles away12401 Washington Blvd Whittier California 90602Voluntary non-profit - Private(526) 698-0811
- Whittier Hospital Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 8.59 miles away9080 Colima Rd Whittier California 90605Proprietary(562) 945-3561
- Huntington Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.08 miles away100 W California Blvd Pasadena California 91109Voluntary non-profit - Other(626) 397-5000
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita-Greater El Monte Dialysis Center1.8 miles away1938 Tyler Avenue, Suite J-168 South El Monte California 91733CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 14 (626) 350-6692
- Temple City Dialysis Facility, Inc.2.42 miles away9945 Lower Azusa Road Temple City California 91780CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (626) 442-3400
- Fmc-El Monte2.57 miles away11204 E. Rush Street South El Monte California 91733Dialysis Stations: 17 (626) 582-1121
- Davita-Rosemead Springs Dialysis Center3.07 miles away3212 Rosemead Blvd. El Monte California 91731CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (626) 280-2080
- Advanced Dialysis Center3.35 miles away3932 Downing Avenue Baldwin Park California 91706Dialysis Stations: 18 (626) 856-3333
- La Puente Dialysis Center, Inc.3.5 miles away14557 Temple Avenue La Puente California 91744CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (626) 917-1719
- Queens Dialysis Unit, Inc.3.95 miles away1135 S. Sunset Avenue, Suite 103 West Covina California 91790CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (626) 337-4245
- Fmc-West Covina Kidney Center4.18 miles away1540 W. Covina Parkway West Covina California 91790CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (626) 337-8007