San Gabriel Valley Medical Center D/P Snf

To pair with its favorable overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Inspection grades weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily something to panic about.

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 rating assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning residents more often.

The third most favorable area we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a B-. In determining these short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The next category we assessed is long-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this area. For patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. One of the data points we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.65625 percent of its residents. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.