Rady Children's Convalescent Hospital D/P Snf

Rady Children's Convalescent Hospital D/P Snf is located in San Diego, California. The city has several options. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the most impressive facilities we assessed. In fact, it was given our absolute highest score. This is really as good of a nursing home as you're going to find. As you can find below, this place performed equally well in our category ratings. We gave it a straight A report card!

To go along with a strong overall score, we awarded this facility an A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection scores weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors 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 nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating is largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 8.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This was one of the highest figures we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. In addition to offering high levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any facility in California in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care offered.

Turning the page to our third area, this high end nursing home also excelled in the area of long-term care. In this area, we gave it a A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to elite nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination records is first-rate as well. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This combination proved to be successful as this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to our fourth area, this nursing home was awarded an excellent short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in this area, giving this facility straight A's. Our short-term care ratings are important for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. This includes a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this facility's strengths is that it provides more than an hour of care per day from registered nurses per resident. This is really the gold standard in this area, as it's approximately 50% higher than a typical facility's level of registered nurse staffing. Lastly, 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 nursing home's patients returned home.