Providence Little Co of Mary Transitional Care Center

Providence Little Co of Mary Transitional Care Center is located in Torrance, California. With an overall score of A+, this nursing home is without a doubt a top-shelf nursing home. Indeed, this turned out to be quite a bit better than many of the facilities in Torrance. This facility also received consistently good grades in all of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. In determining our short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. This facility excelled at the highest level in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is an excellent sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in the country with 73.6 percent of its patients returning home.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Nursing scores are largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place boasts a really impressive 6.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing high levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. It performed as well as any nursing home in the nation in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. It received one of our best grades in that category with an A. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

In our final category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care grade. This rounded out an elite profile. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.