Shandin Hills Behavior Therapy Center

Shandin Hills Behavior Therapy Center is located in San Bernardino, California. This city has a total of 236,660 people. We gave it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the road score. This grade was right in line with the city grade in San Bernardino. You should also take a look at this facility's category grades below. We discuss long-term care in the next section.

This nursing home excelled in the category of long-term care, where it earned an impressive grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. If it wasn't for this grade, this facility's overall score would have been lower. Facilities that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Inspections is another category where this nursing home excelled. In fact, we awarded this facility an A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than its overall grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. When calculating our nursing scores, we factor in both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This place provided just 2.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. Although this place got docked a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this statistic. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning residents at least once a day.

Moving on to the last category, we awarded this facility a grade of D for the area of short-term care. This was the nursing home's least impressive category grade. Unfortunately, this category hurt the facility's overall grade to a certain degree. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.