Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
3455 East Highland Ave,
Highland CA 92346
99.31% estimated occupancy 1
With an address in Highland, California, Sierra Vista is one of just a couple available nursing homes in this area. This nursing home turns out to be a very solid facility, with an overall grade of B. Based on our ratings, this facility looks like a good fit for most people. Fortunately, this nursing home did not have any weak links in any of the four major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.
This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially would like to emphasize its excellent health inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Adding to its profile, this facility also received a score of B for its long-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 25.555557 percent of its patients. This is a few points less than we were hoping for. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. There are several criteria within this grade. Most of these criteria relate to staffing levels. This facility provided just 2.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a low total compared with most nursing homes. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place.
The final category we scored was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
In Sierra Vista, 1.66% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients which sustained falls which caused severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be a sign of lower quality nursing care.
In Sierra Vista, 1.19% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections could be associated with insufficient hygiene.
In Sierra Vista, 13.87% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally used to treat residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
In Sierra Vista, 4.32% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
In Sierra Vista, 96.21% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
In Sierra Vista, 8.35% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
In Sierra Vista, 14.01% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who retained mobility levels.
In Sierra Vista, 1.49 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
In Sierra Vista, 14.01 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
