Sequoias San Francisco Convalescent Hospital

Sequoias San Francisco Convalescent Hospital is a small non-profit facility located in San Francisco, California. It looks like this nursing home is one of the best nursing homes we looked at. A score of this caliber requires superb scores across the board. We really can not say enough great things about this nursing home. We also gave this facility strong grades in each of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great facility is that it received a very impressive short-term care grade. In fact, this proved to be its best category. In that category, we awarded this facility an impressive grade of A. In calculating our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in California in this area with 63 percent of its residents returning home.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Nursing grades are primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 4.8 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is among the highest figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. We were very impressed by these figures. In addition to providing impressive levels of nursing care, this facility also performed well in many of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its patients sustaining falls leading to major injury, this place performed better than the national average. This is often a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we gave this facility an A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our final area, this nursing home also was given a first-rate long-term care score, with an A-. This rounded out a very strong report card. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination record was top notch also. Indeed, it vaccinated 97.4359 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This combination proved to be successful as this place keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.