Terra Bella Health and Wellness Suites

Although we did not rate this nursing home highly overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. We weren't able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this nursing home. Without having deficiency related data, it was challenging to really assess the place in the inspections category.

This nursing home's next most favorable category was short-term care, but it still received just a D in that category. This ended up being a well below average grade. In forming these short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Based on its abysmal grade in this category, we weren't shocked to discover that this facility provides substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Moving on to the area of long-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in this category. Facilities that don't score well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided information about vaccinations. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

The next area we rated is nursing. It received an F in this area, which is a very poor score. Nursing ratings are largely associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, to round out our nursing grade, we turn to some quality-focused statistics in rounding out our nursing ratings. Specifically, we look at the percent of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.