University Post-Acute Rehab

University Post-Acute Rehab is a small nursing home in Sacramento, California. Featuring an overall score of A, this is undoubtedly a world class facility. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the nation. Headlining this facility's exemplary profile is its short-term care grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ short-term care grade. This is as good as it gets in this category. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This area is typically a fair measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. This facility excelled in two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it supplied about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than a typical facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in the country with 62.5 percent of its patients returning home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility an A+. In computing our nursing ratings, we weigh both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This place provides an incredible 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Very few nursing homes provide this quantity of nursing care to their patients. Out of this total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering impressive levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any facility in California in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered.

Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

The last category we analyzed was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a solid score in this area, with a B-. Even though this isn't on par with a few of this nursing home's other scores, it is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. In our long-term care category, we focus on the amount of services offered by a nursing home, as well as a series of qualitative data points. In addition to offering very solid levels of nursing care, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 95.55556 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.46 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.