Socal Post-Acute Care
7931 S. Sorenson Ave., Whittier CA 90606 · (562) 698-0451 · 92.2% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Socal Post-Acute Care is a small facility in Whittier, California. With an overall rating of A+, this facility is undoubtedly a world class facility. We simply can not say enough favorable things about this facility. Keep reading to see this facility's category scores, which are equally impressive. You just can't do any better than a straight A report card.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 59 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to looking at the impressive quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff at this nursing home, we also were pleased by the facility's record for vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 2.16 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received an A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing ratings are primarily associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive statistic which typically correlates with higher quality care. Finally, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good indicators of the caliber of nursing care provided.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on our next area, this facility was given an excellent short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Short-term care ratings are vital for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This place provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most facilities we looked at. This is a very favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in the country in this area with 59.7 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Facility Inspections
Another impressive feature for this place is its inspection rating. In that category, we gave this facility an A-, wrapping up its straight A performance. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Socal Post-Acute Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients who had falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better