Sequoia Transitional Care

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. Inspection ratings are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

This facility also didn't grade out terribly in the category of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of C in that area, which is among its more respectable grades. Short-term care scores are important for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We were stunned to find that this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing. We awarded it an impressive grade of D for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Nursing scores are primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final category we rated was long-term care, which turned out to be a weak link for this nursing home. We gave this nursing home a D in the area of long-term care. Long-term care scores in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided data regarding vaccinations. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.