Sharp Chula Vista Med Center Senior Nursing Faciility

In addition to being a first-rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Few facilities fared better in this category. Short-term care scores are crucial for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Our nursing rating weighs several datapoints, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 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 minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Tallying another strong category grade, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this nursing home was awarded a highly favorable long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ in that area, finishing off one of our finer report cards. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 82.22222 percent of its residents. This is slightly lower than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.