Terrace View Care Center
201 East Bastanchury, Fullerton CA 92835 · (714) 870-0060 · 88.81% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Terrace View Care Center is one of seven facilities located in Fullerton, California. This nursing home received a superb overall score of A-, making it ranked among the top three facilities in the city. Based on our assessment, this nursing home is just about as as good as it gets. Scroll down to see this facility's category ratings, which are also strong. It would be hard to poke holes in this nursing home's profile.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 59 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this place also performed well in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Not many facilities performed better in this area. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Short-term Care Quality
We also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was awarded an elite grade of A- in our short-term care category. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Remarkably, this facility provides its patients at least one and a half times as many physical therapist hours per week than the typical facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in this area with 67.4 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing score is primarily based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.7 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is much better than what is provided by most places. Lastly, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it fared as well as any facility the state in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as good measures of the quality of nursing care offered.
Long-term Care Quality
In the last category, we awarded this facility a grade of A for its long-term care score. This topped off a first-rate report card. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to providing very favorable levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This figure is also significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. This combination proved to be effective as this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Terrace View Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients who have suffered a fall leading to severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be an indicator of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure measures the percentage of long-term residents who suffered from urinary tract infections. UTI's could be an indication of a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this datapoint can be skewed for some facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term patients taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally used to treat patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the erosion of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better