University Park Healthcare Center

University Park Healthcare Center is in Los Angeles, California, which has an abundance of nursing homes. Our rating scheme was not kind to this facility, as we gave it an overall rating of F. This facility did not have any redeeming qualities. Finally, inspections was the lone shining light in this nursing home's profile. We provide more information on this category below.

Although we gave this nursing home a poor overall score, we gave it a B for our inspections rating. This is the result of the facility receiving a quality government inspection report this year. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's second best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. There are many datapoints included in this category. Many of the factors are tied to staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. Unfortunately, this place also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This facility was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this measure.

This nursing home's second worse score is long-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a relatively poor grade. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility fared much worse with 2.86 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this statistic is nearly double the national average.

The next category we assessed is short-term care, is this facility's least impressive category. We gave this facility a grade of D in that area. Our short-term care grade is often employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 35.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.