Torrance Memorial Med Center Snf/Dp

We also found that this nursing home excelled at short-term care. We awarded them a grade of A+ in this category. With our short-term care assessment, we try to craft a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Compounding its top-shelf accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this facility a score of A for our long-term care rating. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. This nursing home excelled in this area.

Racking up another strong category grade, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a score of A. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category we analyzed, this facility was given an impressive grade grade of A in our nursing category. With this score, the facility wrapped up a straight A profile. In calculating our nursing scores, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 facility California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving residents at least once a day.