Redwood Convalescent Hospital

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the area of long-term care, where it earned an impressive grade of A. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.31035 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. 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 less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. It earned a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A-. Few facilities with an overall score in this range performed as well in multiple categories. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. When determining a facility's nursing grade, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are with residents and the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving a resident more frequently.

The final category we graded was short-term care, in which this facility was given a grade of B-. This was this facility's least impressive category. This is still not a major area of concern. Our short-term care scores are thought to be most critical for residents needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.