Santa Rosa Post Acute

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a resident at least once a day.

This facility also received an impressive short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this area. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is more often than not a useful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

We also awarded this nursing home a middle of the pack grade in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a B-. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on vaccination rates. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Finally, turning to our inspection category, we gave this facility a C. Our inspection grade is based on the nursing home's government inspection reports. Although this is not a terrible grade, it is this nursing home's weakest area. Our inspection ratings are tied to many data points found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. At the end of the day, we found plenty of high points on this nursing home's inspection reports.