San Diego Healthcare Center

San Diego Healthcare Center is just one of 22 possibilities in San Diego, California. This is a lower end nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Based on our assessment, we would be very reluctant to recommend this facility. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next section.

Although we didn't give this place a good overall grade, we actually gave it a relatively strong grade in the category of inspections, where it earned a B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. Our nursing grade is largely based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed above average in this area.

This nursing home's third most favorable category was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this category. Our short-term care grades are vital for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It was respectable in this metric with 47.5 percent of its residents returning home.

Moving on to our fourth category, this nursing home was given a grade of C for long-term care, which is generally a respectable rating. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.65514 percent of its residents. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.17 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes.