San Joaquin Nursing Center and Rehabilitation Cent

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This indicates that inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, they also received 42 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is certainly not a great sign.

This nursing home also didn't perform too badly in the category of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of C in that category, which ended up being another one of its more respectable scores. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The real question is whether this also affected quality of care. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This place offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Turning to our next area, this nursing home really didn't fare well in this category either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.