Veterans Home of California - West Los Angeles

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. When determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses are seeing patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving patients more often.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. It does not look like we were able to find deficiency data for this facility. We would like to have more information about this nursing home. Without having all of the information regarding deficiencies, it ended up being a challenge to grade the place in the area of inspections.

Moving on our third area, this nursing home was given a strong short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A- in this category. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The final area we assessed proved to be this facility's worst category. However, even its worst category would be a highlight for many nursing homes. We awarded it a favorable grade of B in our long-term care category. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 97.984886 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.