San Tomas Convalescent Hospital is a facility located in San Jose, California which has a population of 973,849 people. We gave it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack rating. The facilities in San Jose received quality grades across the board with a city grade of a B. The best part of this place's report card is is its inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.
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San Tomas Convalescent Hospital
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home received 3 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.
Short-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility a strong grade in short-term care. This nursing home earned a grade of B in this category, which happens to be one of our more impressive grades. Our short-term care grade is often employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. It does not look like this facility provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we considered the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. There are quite a few datapoints within this category. Many of the criteria reflect nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, nursing grades also consider quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses to assist its residents.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our fourth category, this facility was given a decent long-term care score of C. Long-term care ratings are vital for patients seeking non-healthcare services such as personal care. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
San Tomas Convalescent Hospital Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In San Tomas Convalescent Hospital, 10.96% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In San Tomas Convalescent Hospital, 2.52% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are routinely linked to lower levels of patient supervision. Additional nurse staffing can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In San Tomas Convalescent Hospital, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term patients that sustained a UTI. While a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different facilities due to varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In San Tomas Convalescent Hospital, 6.69% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for many medical conditions, including dementia. Unfortunately, in limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In San Tomas Convalescent Hospital, 4.26% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In San Tomas Convalescent Hospital, 0% of Patients
This is the percent of residents who are showing depressive symptoms. Increased rates of depression could imply a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In San Tomas Convalescent Hospital, 99.7% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In San Tomas Convalescent Hospital, 15.59% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In San Tomas Convalescent Hospital, 17.3% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In San Tomas Convalescent Hospital, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In San Tomas Convalescent Hospital, 17.3% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In San Tomas Convalescent Hospital, 12.21% of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In San Tomas Convalescent Hospital, 88.01% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some believe this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation services.
Scores for San Jose, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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