Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance Transitional Care Center

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 7.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Our inspection scores are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also fared very well in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of A. Not many nursing homes fared better in this category. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. It doesn't look like this facility submitted vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to the fourth category, this facility received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in this category, giving this facility straight A's. Our nursing rating is mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.7 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 frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.