South Coast Global Medical Center D/P Snf

South Coast Global Medical Center D/P Snf is a small hospital-based nursing home in Santa Ana, California. This turns out to be a quality facility, with an overall grade of B. We found this facility to be better than most of the nursing homes in Santa Ana, which has a city grade of B-. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was long-term care, which is discussed in the next section.

One of the main reasons this proved to be a strong nursing home is that it received a very impressive long-term care grade. In fact, this ended up being its best grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of A+. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of offering very impressive levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This statistic is also far better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility also performed well in the area of inspections. It received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. It received one of our best grades in that area with an A. Few facilities with an overall score in this range performed this well in multiple categories. Inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

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. Our nursing score is primarily based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 7.8 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This was well above average. Furthermore, a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly trained nurses. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality measures, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed admirably in this area.

The next area we assessed is short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of D for short-term care, leaving this as the nursing home's worst area. Our short-term care scores are critical for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. This statistic was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.