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St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B
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35 Escuela Drive,
Daly City CA 94015

(650) 755-9515

93.82% estimated occupancy 1

Located in Daly City, California, St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital is one of just three facilities in the city. This nursing home is a very solid facility, with an overall grade of B. We actually rated it as the best facility in Daly City. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which you can find in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Meal Delivery
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Bariatric Care
  • Optometry
  • Audiology
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Awards

Best Nursing Home in Daly City, California badge

Best Nursing Home in Daly City, California Awards 2019

Best Nursing Home in Daly City, California badge

Best Nursing Home in Daly City, California Awards 2020

Registered Staff Hours

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

One of the reasons this proved to be a quality nursing home is that it received a very impressive short-term care rating. In fact, short-term care is its best category. In that area, we awarded this facility an A-. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This area is more often than not a solid assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A-minus

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing score weighs many subcategories. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Facility Inspections

Grade: B-plus

This facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the facility's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ for that category, which is among our highest grades. Our inspection grades are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

This facility's worst category is long-term care, which is the final category we looked at. For this category, we gave this nursing home an D. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.632355 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: D

In St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital, 12.78% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-plus

In St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital, 2.21% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure gauges the percent of long-term residents which sustained falls leading to severe injury. We use this statistic in computing nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-minus

In St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital, 2.62% of Patients had UTIs

This metric indicates the percent of long-term patients who had urinary tract infections. UTI's could be a sign of poor nursing care. However, this datapoint may be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A-plus

In St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital, 3.59% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percentage of residents given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital, 4.67% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients who are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are used to treat residents experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital, 0% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many believe that this is a measure of patient quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital, 98.85% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital, 16.81% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and eating.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital, 25.34% of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that maintained mobility.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital, 25.34% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: C

In St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital, 16.23% of Patients

This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: C

In St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital, 72.6% of Resident

This tells you the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with successful rehabilitation.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Seton Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.46 miles away1900 Sullivan Avenue Daly City California 94015Voluntary non-profit - Church(650) 992-4000
  • Kaiser Foundation Hospital - South San FranciscoAcute Care Hospitals 2.37 miles away1200 El Camino Real South San Francisco California 94080Voluntary non-profit - Private(650) 742-3200
  • California Pacific Medical Center - Mission BernalAcute Care Hospitals 5.9 miles away3555 Cesar Chavez Street San Francisco California 94110Voluntary non-profit - Church(415) 641-6562
  • Ucsf Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.26 miles away505 Parnassus Ave, Box 0296 San Francisco California 94143Voluntary non-profit - Other(415) 353-2733
  • Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hosp & Trauma CtrAcute Care Hospitals 6.78 miles away1001 Potrero Avenue San Francisco California 94110Government - Local(415) 206-8000
  • St Mary's Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.99 miles away450 Stanyan St San Francisco California 94117Voluntary non-profit - Private(415) 668-1000
  • Mills-Peninsula Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.63 miles away1501 Trousdale Drive Burlingame California 94010Voluntary non-profit - Private(650) 696-5270
  • Kaiser Foundation Hospital - San FranciscoAcute Care Hospitals 7.71 miles away2425 Geary Blvd San Francisco California 94115Voluntary non-profit - Private(415) 833-2646

Nearby Dialysis

  • Daly City Dialysis Center0.06 miles away1498 Southgate Avenue Daly City California 94015CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 34 (650) 755-4751
  • Westlake Daly City Dialysis Center1.73 miles away2201 Junipero Sierra Boulevard. #A Daly City California 94014CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 31 (650) 755-9480
  • Satellite Dialysis Daly City1.73 miles away2001 Junipero Serra Blvd, Suite 100 Daly City California 94014CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (650) 746-3140
  • Wellbound of Daly City1.9 miles away2001 Junipero Serra Blvd Daly City California 94014Dialysis Stations: 4 (650) 550-3600
  • South San Francisco Home Training2.61 miles away74 Camaritas Ave South San Francisco California 94080Dialysis Stations: 7 (650) 589-8562
  • Westborough Dialysis Center3.13 miles away925 El Camino Real South San Francisco California 94080Dialysis Stations: 5 (650) 624-5433
  • Rai Ocean Avenue3.61 miles away1738 Ocean Avenue San Francisco California 94112CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (415) 406-1090
  • Satellite Healthcare South San Francisco3.65 miles away205 Kenwood Way South San Francisco California 94080CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (650) 616-7788