St Andrews Healthcare

St Andrews Healthcare is a small facility located in Los Angeles, California. This is a well below average nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Based on our ratings, this place may not be a great fit for most people. The only positive thing we can really say about this facility is that it did not receive any F's in any of the categories we assessed. More information about its category grades is available below.

While we did not rate this nursing home well overall, we want to note its decent inspections in recent years. We awarded it a somewhat respectable score of B- in that category. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. Nursing ratings are largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. Based on the data, it looks like this facility provides an impressive 3.9 hours per patient per day. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes offer. In determining our grades, we apply more weight to hours performed by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be accurate indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facilities third most favorable category is long-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is basically a middle of the road score in this category. Our long-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's amount of care. This includes a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 3.14 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this figure is somewhat concerning, this number may be skewed for some facilities due to the preexisting medical conditions of patients.

Our final category is short-term care, where we awarded this facility a grade of C in that category. Our short-term care ratings are important for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We found that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. It is important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. The final measure we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 12.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.