Sky Harbor Care Center
57333 Joshua Lane, Yucca Valley CA 92284 · (760) 365-4870 · 97.77% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Sky Harbor Care Center is a nursing home located in Yucca Valley, California, which has 25,095 people. Our grading system was not kind to this nursing home, as it received an overall score of F. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Yucca Valley. The city has just one other nursing home. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, we will discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 99 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
Neither this facility's overall grade nor its category grades gave us much to highlight here. Its best category was long-term care, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 98.92857 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place fared much worse with 2.84 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is nearly double the national average.
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection grades where it received an F. This generally means we found some red flags on the inspection reports. For facilities with bad inspection scores, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed one category L deficiency, which is the worst possible category of deficiencies. This category indicates the government inspectors uncovered a widespread deficiency placing patient health or safety in immediate danger. Even a single deficiency in this category will really pull a facility's inspection grade down. Finally, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently amounting to more than $100,000. This generally indicates that a poor performance has been an issue for more than one year.
Short-term Care Quality
Another issue was the F this nursing home was given in the area of short-term care. In our short-term care category, we attempt to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 34.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Nurse Quality
The next category we graded was nursing. This nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this area. Our nursing rating includes many subcategories, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home offered a meager 2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is well below average. This nursing home also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This nursing home was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign in light of the fact that many bed sores could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this facility's nursing score significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sky Harbor Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are often linked to poor nursing care. More supervision can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used to treat several medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression could indicate worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many in the industry believe that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better