Veterans Home of California - Yountville - Snf

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. When determining our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving patients more often.

This exemplary facility also was superb in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A+. Only a small group of nursing homes fared better in this area. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.07407 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The third category we analyzed is short-term care. Adding to its high-end resume, this nursing home also performed well in this category. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- in that area. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is often a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. This finished off a straight A report card for this place. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most 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.