Burbank Rehabilitation Center

This facility's grades are terrible across the board. In particular, we wanted to point out its inspection grade where it received an F. This isn't a good sign for its inspection reports. For nursing homes that received this poor of an inspection grade, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility had 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received large government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This generally means that a poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of F. Our nursing grade considers several subcategories. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these statistics to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another issue was the F this nursing home was given in the category of long-term care. Facilities that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 50.16181 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points less than the national average. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

The final category we rated is short-term care. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category, which is a very poor grade. Short-term care grades are crucial for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With a grade of this caliber for this area, we were not surprised to find that this facility was below average in several staffing figures we focus on. The facility supplied substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.4 percent of its residents returning home.