Pacifica Senior Living Skylyn

In addition to having a decent overall grade, we also wanted to note that this nursing home received favorable nursing marks this year. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a B+. This proved to be the facility's top grade. Nursing grades are primarily tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also was awarded a positive short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it a B in this category, which is one of our better. Short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility also earned a strong inspection score. Inspection grades are based on the facility's recent inspections. We awarded this facility a B in this area. Inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

The next area we rated is long-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. We gave this facility a D in that area. Naturally, this category hurt the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information on its vaccination levels. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.