St Andrews Healthcare is a small facility located in Los Angeles, California. We gave this nursing home a very respectable overall rating of B+. As a matter of fact, this nursing home ended up being a superior option to most of the nursing homes in Los Angeles. Based on our analysis, this facility looks like a good fit for most people. Fortunately, this place didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. Additional information about these categories can be found below.
St Andrews Healthcare
Updated May 1, 2022 by Sara Levinsohn
2300 W. Washington Blvd.,
Los Angeles CA 90018
68.47% estimated occupancy 1
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Long-term Care Quality
To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination statistics is as good as it gets also. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 3.17 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this area, this number may be skewed for some nursing homes based on the preexisting medical conditions of residents.
Nurse Quality
Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A. The nursing category weighs quite a few factors, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This place provides a very impressive 4.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is among the highest totals in the nation. Finally, this place also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home California in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these datapoints as good measures of the quality of nursing care offered.
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Facility Inspections
Another strong feature for this nursing home is that it excelled in the area of inspections, with a B in that category. It performed better than most nursing homes in this category. Inspection ratings are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at is short-term care, in which this facility was awarded a C. While this wound up being its lowest category score, this is nevertheless not the end of the world. With our short-term care category, we try to create a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that just 29.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Andrews Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In St Andrews Healthcare, 7.63% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term patients who developed pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In St Andrews Healthcare, 1.66% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who had falls which resulted in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In St Andrews Healthcare, 1.19% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In St Andrews Healthcare, 9.98% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In St Andrews Healthcare, 13.87% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In St Andrews Healthcare, 4.32% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In St Andrews Healthcare, 96.21% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In St Andrews Healthcare, 8.35% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In St Andrews Healthcare, 14.01% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry argue that mobility is vital to patients well-being.
Hospitalizations
In St Andrews Healthcare, 1.49 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In St Andrews Healthcare, 14.01 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In St Andrews Healthcare, 9.82 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In St Andrews Healthcare, 79.69% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Los Angeles, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus
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