Southern Inyo Hospital D/P Snf

Southern Inyo Hospital D/P Snf is a facility located in Lone Pine, California, a city with 2,082 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A score of this caliber requires some respectable marks. Based on our analysis, this nursing home likely wouldn't be a bad choice. The best part of this facility's report card was its remarkable inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. Our inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's next most favorable category is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack grade in this category. For residents in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. This nursing home's vaccination records weren't as favorable a few of the other datapoints in this category, such as its nursing hours data. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 90.588234 percent of its residents. We would love to see some improvement in this area next year. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 2.08 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had some more complex patients.

The third area we looked at was short-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of C. In determining these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of physical therapy per week to its residents. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This place performed respectably in this area with 45.7 percent of its residents returning home.

The final category we assessed is nursing, which turned out to be this nursing home's worst area. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is clearly very disappointing. When determining our nursing scores, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. Quantity of nursing care is not the issue here with this facility's grade. This facility actually provides an above average 4.6 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this nursing home didn't perform as well in the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was above the national average in both of these metrics. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These data points dragged down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.