Stanley Healthcare Center

Stanley Healthcare Center is a facility located in Westminster, California, which has a population of 89,747 people. Featuring an overall rating of B, this facility is a great choice. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Westminster. You also may want to review this nursing home's category grades below. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this facility fared well in our long-term care category. We awarded it an A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.02912 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a dangerous ailment for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. The last statistic we looked at is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.1 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. When determining a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. According to CMS records, this nursing home averaged 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Keep in mind that when we compute our nursing scores, we add more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of training. Lastly, we also considered quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home was above average in two of the major metrics we focus on, including minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally accurate indicators of the quality of nursing care available.

This facility's weakest area is short-term care, which is the last category we analyzed. In this category, we gave this nursing home a D. In crafting these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.