San Marino Manor

One reason this nursing home performed so well overall is that it fared well in long-term care, with a grade of B+ in that area. It outpaced most nursing homes in this category. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Another strong feature for this nursing home is that it was given a favorable short-term care grade. In fact, this ended up being its second best category grade. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. In our short-term care category, we strive to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility also received top notch government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

The final area we looked at was nursing, where this facility was given a grade of B. This nursing home didn't prove to have any weaknesses. There are many criteria within this grade. Most of the factors are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning a patient at least once a day.