The Blossoms Rehab & Nursing Center at Woodland Hills

While we did not have many favorable things to say about this facility's overall grade, it did receive a respectable nursing grade of C. Our nursing category consists of quite a few factors, many of which are based on nursing hours. This place provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, our nursing scores also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

We gave this nursing home a C for inspections. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. This nursing home had 2 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in categories G through L. This means it avoided the more significant classes of deficiencies. Finally, they also received 13 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is certainly not a great sign.

This nursing home was awarded its third highest category score in the area of short-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of C in this area, which is an acceptable grade. In determining these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final area we analyzed was long-term care. For this category, we gave this nursing home a C. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate this place's vaccination data. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.