San Remo

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This facility received its second most favorable category score in the area of long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this category, which is a respectable grade. Long-term care scores are essential for prospective residents seeking non-healthcare services such as personal care. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an above average figure. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a relatively low total compared to most nursing homes. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Moving on to the next area, we awarded this nursing home a D for short-term care. This was the nursing home's weakest category score. Naturally, this score hurt the facility's overall profile to some degree. Short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.