San Francisco Post Acute

This facility earned a very strong long-term care rating. We gave this nursing home a grade of A- in this area, which really helped out its overall grade. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We weren't able to locate this place's vaccination data. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's second best category turned out to be short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B-. Our short-term care ratings are presumably most important for people in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Turning to the area of health inspections, we gave this nursing home a grade of C for our inspection category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. This facility had 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on to our final category, this facility received a grade of C in nursing, which is generally an acceptable grade. The nursing rating analyzes quite a few data points, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we like to look at quality-based metrics, such as the percentage of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these data points are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care.