Reo Vista Healthcare Center

Reo Vista Healthcare Center is a large nursing home located in San Diego, California. We gave this facility a very respectable overall grade of A-. As a matter of fact, we ranked it as the sixth best facility in San Diego according to our rankings. Even in a city featuring 22 nursing homes, this facility really stands out as a great selection. If you scroll down, you will see this place's category scores, which are also impressive.

On top of faring well overall, this facility earned nearly flawless government inspections. Consequently, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A+. Inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its short-term care score. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Remarkably, this facility provides its residents with at least 50% more physical therapist hours per week than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in this area with 62.8 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This place provides an incredible 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is far better than what is offered by most places. Finally, this facility was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. It performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Turning to the last area, this facility was given a high-end long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a B+ in that category, completing one of our better report cards. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After looking at the very impressive nursing hours and other staffing provided by this facility, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. This combination proved to be effective as this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.