Southern California Hospital at Culver City

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this place also received top notch inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in this category, with an A. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Another one of this nursing home's quality category scores came in the area of short-term care. We gave them one of our more positive grades in that category, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care ratings are important for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing. This means a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing grade assesses several datapoints, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we scored was long-term care. We gave this facility a D for our long-term care category, making this its worst area. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated 49.23077 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be several points below what we expected. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.