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The Cove at La Jolla

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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7160 Fay Avenue,
La Jolla CA 92037

(858) 459-4361

91.52% estimated occupancy 1

With an address in La Jolla, California, The Cove at La Jolla is one of only two facilities there. This nursing home turns out to be a grade A facility, which is a dominant score. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the nation. As you can see below, this facility also performed well in our category grades. It's hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.

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Quick Details

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

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Speech Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Lymphedema Care

Awards

Best Nursing Home in La Jolla, California badge

Best Nursing Home in La Jolla, California Awards 2019

Best Nursing Home in La Jolla, California badge

Best Nursing Home in La Jolla, California Awards 2021

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Nurse Quality

Grade: A

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this facility excelled in nursing. In fact, we gave it a grade of A for that area. Our nursing score includes a handful of subcategories, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 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 nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A

This nursing home also excelled in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B

The next category we graded is long-term care, in which this facility was given a B. While this turned out to be its worst category score, this is nevertheless a quality score. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

The Cove at La Jolla Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In The Cove at La Jolla, 3.64% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A+

In The Cove at La Jolla, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term patients who suffered falls leading to severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing ratings.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B

In The Cove at La Jolla, 1.54% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely caused by worse hygiene protocols. Closer supervision reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A

In The Cove at La Jolla, 6.76% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to residents for many conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Tragically, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In The Cove at La Jolla, 2.82% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-plus

In The Cove at La Jolla, 1.39% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many in the industry argue that this is a measure of quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In The Cove at La Jolla, 100% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-plus

In The Cove at La Jolla, 4.29% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: F

In The Cove at La Jolla, 5.93% of Residents

This tells you the percentage of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In The Cove at La Jolla, 5.93% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: C

In The Cove at La Jolla, 15.14% of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A-minus

In The Cove at La Jolla, 85.62% of Resident

This datapoint measures the percent of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some argue this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Scripps Memorial Hospital La JollaAcute Care Hospitals 4.4 miles away9888 Genesee Avenue La Jolla California 92037Physician(858) 626-4123
  • Sharp Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.36 miles away7901 Frost St San Diego California 92123Voluntary non-profit - Private(858) 939-3400
  • Uc San Diego Health Hillcrest - Hillcrest Med CtrAcute Care Hospitals 8.51 miles away200 West Arbor Drive San Diego California 92103Voluntary non-profit - Other(619) 543-6222
  • Scripps Mercy HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.84 miles away4077 5th Ave San Diego California 92103Voluntary non-profit - Private(619) 294-8111
  • Kaiser Foundation Hospital - ZionAcute Care Hospitals 10.76 miles away4647 Zion Ave San Diego California 92120Voluntary non-profit - Private(619) 528-5000
  • Nmc San DiegoAcute Care - Department of Defense 10.79 miles away34800 Bob Wilson Drive San Diego California 92134Department of Defense(619) 532-6400
  • Sharp Coronado Hospital and Hlthcr CtrAcute Care Hospitals 11.65 miles away250 Prospect Place Coronado California 92118Proprietary(619) 435-6251
  • Alvarado Hospital Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 13.29 miles away6655 Alvarado Road San Diego California 92120Proprietary(619) 229-3172

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fmc-La Jolla6.74 miles away4765 Carmel Mountain Road, Suite 100 San Diego California 92130Dialysis Stations: 24 (858) 793-0058
  • Fmc-Balboa Kearny Mesa Dialysis Center7.05 miles away7927 Ostrow Street, Suite A San Diego California 92111CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 28 (858) 571-0232
  • Childrens Hospital of San Diego8.38 miles away3020 Childrens Way, Mc 5115 San Diego California 92123Dialysis Stations: 5 (858) 966-8882
  • Fmc-Hillcrest Dialysis8.84 miles away3960 Third Avenue San Diego California 92103CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (619) 299-3900
  • Ucsd Dialysis Center10.66 miles awayUcsd Dialysis Center - 200 W. Arbor Drive Dialysis Program, Mail Code 8781 San Diego California 92103CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (619) 543-5646
  • Fmc-Rai-Mission Gorge San Diego10.9 miles away7007 Mission Gorge Road, 1st Floor San Diego California 92120CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 33 (619) 229-1070
  • Home Dialysis Therapies of San Diego-North12.19 miles away10672 Wexford Street, Suite 250 San Diego California 92131Dialysis Stations: 1 (858) 549-3400
  • Davita-Carmel Mountain Dialysis12.35 miles away9850 Carmel Mountain Road, a-D San Diego California 92129CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (858) 538-1083