The Redwoods Post-Acute

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this nursing home. Without having deficiency related data, it is challenging to grade the place in this area.

Additionally, we also wanted to note that this nursing home was given favorable short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our higher grades in that area, with a B. This proved to be the nursing home's second highest grade. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is more often than not a fair measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the number of residents that returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also received a strong grade in our nursing category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. The nursing rating consists of quite a few factors, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving patients even once per day.

The next area we looked at is long-term care. We gave it a C in this category. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this area. Long-term care grades focus on a facility's personal care rather than the highly skilled therapy or medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. It does not appear that this nursing home submitted data regarding vaccinations. Finally, this place keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.