Santa Cruz Post Acute

On top of being a strong facility overall, this facility also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A-. Few facilities fared better in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. It does not look like we have deficiency data for this facility. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without having access to complete information regarding deficiencies, it was a challenge to grade it in this area.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our nursing grade includes a host of subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also was awarded an impressive short-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this category. In computing our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is more often than not a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. We gave it a B- in that area. This is a fair grade in this area. In computing our long-term care grades, we assess the assistance with daily living offered to the nursing home's residents. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. It does not look like this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Finally, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.