Springs Road Healthcare
1527 Springs Road, Vallejo CA 94591 · (707) 643-2793 · 88.3% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Located in Vallejo, California, Springs Road Healthcare is one of just three facilities in this area. Sporting an overall rating of A, we rated this nursing home as the highest scoring nursing home in Vallejo. An overall score in this range is a strong indicator of top-shelf facility. We really can't say enough favorable things about this facility. Headlining this place's remarkable profile is its nursing score, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 65 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
We also want to point out that this facility excelled in our nursing category. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. We weighed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in determining our grade in this category. This nursing home averages 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a resident even once per day.
Short-term Care Quality
We also wanted to alert you to the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our short-term care category. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. This place fared as well as just about any facility in California in this area with 58.6 percent of its patients returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents return home.
Facility Inspections
This facility has earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this area. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we looked at was long-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a B. Even though this proved to be its lowest category grade, this is nevertheless a good score. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.47369 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. This nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.55 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Springs Road Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care reduces 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 datapoint gauges the percent of long-term patients which had falls leading to serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents who have had urinary tract infections. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for many medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better