Located in Santa Barbara, California, Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility is one of seven available nursing homes in this city. This nursing home received a phenomenal overall score of A, resulting in it being one of the three highest graded nursing homes in Santa Barbara. This is really as good of a nursing home as you're going to find. This nursing home was also given impressive scores in all four of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Meal Delivery
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Pain Management
- Audiology
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned a very impressive short-term care score. This turned out to be its best category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A. Short-term care grades are commonly used to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 7.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Facility Inspections
Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider 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.
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Long-term Care Quality
The third area we analyzed was long-term care. Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in this category. In fact, we awarded it a of A- for the category. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.29578 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
In the last category we graded, this facility received an impressive grade grade of A- in our nursing category. With this score, the facility rounded out a straight A profile. When computing a facility's nursing grade, we look at the number of hours nurses are with patients and the level of licensure of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, 7.62% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients which developed pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, 1.67% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered to be a barometer of nursing care . Falls which result in injury are often caused by lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, 1.21% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely caused by nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, 10.06% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, 13.91% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are used to treat residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, 4.33% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Increased rates of depression may reveal a less hospitable environment.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, 95.72% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, 8.37% Percentage of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, 14.05% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients who maintained mobility. Some argue that the ability to move around is vital to residents' mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, 1.49 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is important to maintaining the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, 14.05 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, 9.85 Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Samarkand Skilled Nursing Facility, 79.63% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue this is a measure of rehabilitation services.
Scores for Santa Barbara, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Santa Barbara, California has 6 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Santa Barbara Cottage HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.44 miles away400 West Pueblo Santa Barbara California 93102Voluntary non-profit - Private(805) 682-7111
- Goleta Valley Cottage HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.48 miles away351 S Patterson Ave Santa Barbara California 93111Voluntary non-profit - Other(805) 681-6446
Nearby Dialysis
- Santa Barbara Artificial Kidney Center, LLC1.61 miles away1704 State Street Santa Barbara California 93101CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (805) 682-9942
- Fmc-Santa Barbara Community Dialysis Center1.83 miles away222 Pesetas Lane Santa Barbara California 93110Dialysis Stations: 14 (805) 964-7873