Sky Harbor Care Center

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.