San Juan Nursing Home

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we had positive view of this nursing home's recent inspections.

This nursing home also received a positive long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it a B in this area, which is one of our better. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.609375 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. Our nursing rating features several subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

The final area we scored is short-term care. In this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. 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 average facility. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.