Vasona Creek Healthcare Center
16412 Los Gatos Boulevard, Los Gatos CA 95032 · (408) 356-2191 · 95.74% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Located in Los Gatos, California, Vasona Creek Healthcare Center is one of four nursing homes in this city. This facility was awarded an A- overall, which is one of the highest scores that we offer. A grade of this caliber requires first-rate scores across the board. Based on all of the relevant data, you can't go wrong with this place. This nursing home's impressive profile was highlighted by its short-term care score, which we will address in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 148 Beds
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For profit - Partnership
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. With our short-term care rating, we strive to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This facility excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is generally an excellent sign. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation with 61.4 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also earned a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A-. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. The nursing score assesses quite a few components, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This particular nursing home provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, in terms of the percentage of its residents sustaining falls which lead to serious injury, this place performed better than the national average. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we assessed is long-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a grade of B. Believe it or not, this turned out to be this facility's least impressive category. A nursing home is doing something right when it's worst grade still beats out most nursing homes. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of offering well above average levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 3.61 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this wasn't as impressive as some of its other scores in this area, this number may be skewed for some facilities due to some of the preexisting medical conditions of patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Vasona Creek Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care residents who suffer from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often linked to poor nursing care. Closer supervision can reduce the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could be an indicator lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better