The Estates at Delano

To pair with its decent overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This facility also received a favorable grade in our short-term care category. We gave this facility an above average grade of B in this area. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is generally a fair assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 4.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this area. This place provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Lastly, although this place got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it did very well in this area.

Switching gears to our next category, this nursing home received a decent long-term care grade of C. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 97.297295 percent of its residents. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.