Torrance Memorial Med Center Snf/Dp

On top of earning a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ in short-term care. Short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. It outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the country with 67.4 percent of its patients returning home.

Compounding its top-shelf assessments in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for its long-term care score. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. This nursing home is as good as it gets in this area.

In addition, this facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite minor. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home received an extremely favorable nursing rating. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that area, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This particular nursing home provided 8 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This was one of the highest totals we found. Furthermore, a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of offering impressive levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed as well as any nursing home in the nation in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.