San Leandro Healthcare Center

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home was given its second most favorable category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a B- in this category, which is an acceptable score. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is often a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. It does not look like this nursing home submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final item we considered in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. There are numerous subcategories within this grade. Many of the datapoints are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This place averages just 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is a very low figure. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It scored well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Turning to the last category, this facility was given a respectable long-term care score of C. Long-term care scores are based on a nursing home's amount of nursing services. This means a broad range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. After we finished assessing the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinates 97.85714 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.