AHMC Seton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility is a large hospital-based nursing home in Daly City, California. Featuring an overall grade of C, this is likely a middle of the pack nursing home. You can definitely do worse than this nursing home. One of the highlights of this facility's report card is its strong short-term care rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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AHMC Seton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home excelled at short-term care, with an A- in this area. This really propped up its overall score. Short-term care grades are generally used to gauge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facilities next most favorable area was long-term care. We gave it a C in this category. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this category. Our long-term care grades are more critical for patients in need of more conventional assistance associated with personal care. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 96.58634 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Facility Inspections
The final category we looked at is inspections. Unfortunately, this facility didn't receive glowing inspections in recent years. As a result, we had to give it an F in this category. Since this information is compiled by independent government inspectors, we tend to heavily weight a poor performance in this area. This really pulled down this facility's overall grade. When a nursing home has this poor of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This facility was hit with 9 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, we want to point out that this facility was assessed large government fines totaling over $100,000. This typically signifies that a nursing home's bad performance has been an issue for several years.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
AHMC Seton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In AHMC Seton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility, 11.53% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In AHMC Seton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility, 0.2% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients who had falls which resulted in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In AHMC Seton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility, 1.83% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often the result of facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better nursing care minimizes the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In AHMC Seton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility, 12.13% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents given antipsychotic medications. These medications are used to treat a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In AHMC Seton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility, 19.18% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term care residents who are given antianxiety medication. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In AHMC Seton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility, 0% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who are showing signs of depression. Increased rates of depression may be a sign a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In AHMC Seton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility, 97.02% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In AHMC Seton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility, 9.88% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and continence. Some would argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In AHMC Seton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility, 22.39% of Residents
This tells you the percent of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In AHMC Seton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In AHMC Seton Medical Center Skilled Nursing Facility, 22.39% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Seton Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0 miles away1900 Sullivan Avenue Daly City California 94015Voluntary non-profit - Church(650) 992-4000
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital - South San FranciscoAcute Care Hospitals 2.41 miles away1200 El Camino Real South San Francisco California 94080Voluntary non-profit - Private(650) 742-3200
- California Pacific Medical Center - Mission BernalAcute Care Hospitals 5.44 miles away3555 Cesar Chavez Street San Francisco California 94110Voluntary non-profit - Church(415) 641-6562
- Ucsf Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.83 miles away505 Parnassus Ave, Box 0296 San Francisco California 94143Voluntary non-profit - Other(415) 353-2733
- Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hosp & Trauma CtrAcute Care Hospitals 6.32 miles away1001 Potrero Avenue San Francisco California 94110Government - Local(415) 206-8000
- St Mary's Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.56 miles away450 Stanyan St San Francisco California 94117Voluntary non-profit - Private(415) 668-1000
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital - San FranciscoAcute Care Hospitals 7.27 miles away2425 Geary Blvd San Francisco California 94115Voluntary non-profit - Private(415) 833-2646
- Mills-Peninsula Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.79 miles away1501 Trousdale Drive Burlingame California 94010Voluntary non-profit - Private(650) 696-5270
Nearby Dialysis
- Daly City Dialysis Center0.41 miles away1498 Southgate Avenue Daly City California 94015CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 34 (650) 755-4751
- Westlake Daly City Dialysis Center1.31 miles away2201 Junipero Sierra Boulevard. #A Daly City California 94014CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 31 (650) 755-9480
- Satellite Dialysis Daly City1.31 miles away2001 Junipero Serra Blvd, Suite 100 Daly City California 94014CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (650) 746-3140
- Wellbound of Daly City1.47 miles away2001 Junipero Serra Blvd Daly City California 94014Dialysis Stations: 4 (650) 550-3600
- South San Francisco Home Training2.67 miles away74 Camaritas Ave South San Francisco California 94080Dialysis Stations: 7 (650) 589-8562
- Rai Ocean Avenue3.16 miles away1738 Ocean Avenue San Francisco California 94112CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (415) 406-1090
- Westborough Dialysis Center3.21 miles away925 El Camino Real South San Francisco California 94080Dialysis Stations: 5 (650) 624-5433
- Satellite Healthcare South San Francisco3.76 miles away205 Kenwood Way South San Francisco California 94080CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (650) 616-7788