Ukiah Post Acute

This nursing home really excelled in the area of long-term care, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. If not for this area, this nursing home's overall grade would have been worse. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not take any chances. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's inspection score appears to be one of its best features. The facility earned a C in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next category we graded is short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of C in this area. In our short-term care grade, we endeavor to craft a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. 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 hope is that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

Turning to the next category, this nursing home really didn't perform well. With an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this was this nursing home's poorest area. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. With just 0.5 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this place's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.