Redwood Convalescent Hospital

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care grade. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.6755 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. This facility was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.53 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A-. Nursing grades are largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This facility also performed at a high level in the category of inspections. In fact, it earned a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. It received one of our best grades in that category with a grade of B+. Inspection grades are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next category we assessed was short-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our better grades in this area, with a B. This nursing home proved to be relatively strong in all areas we analyzed. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be more meaningful for folks in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.