San Luis Care Center

In addition to earning a quality overall score, this nursing home also received excellent health inspections recently. We gave it one of our highest scores in that area, with an A. Inspection scores weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category generally have very few severe deficiencies. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also was awarded a dominant short-term care score. This actually ended up being this nursing home's third most impressive category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. In forming these short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to formulate a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Turning to our last category, this facility was awarded a highly favorable long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in that category, wrapping up one of our more impressive profiles. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 62.328766 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.