Vi at La Jolla Village
4171 Las Palmas Square, San Diego CA 92122 · (858) 646-3400 · 76.66% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Vi at La Jolla Village is a small nursing home located in San Diego, California. This nursing home turns out to be an A+ rated facility, which is our very best rating. We were not surprised to discover that this is quite a bit better than most of the facilities in San Diego. If you scroll down, you will see this nursing home's category scores, which look to be equally impressive as its overall grade.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this facility earned an A+ inspection score. This is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
We also awarded this facility a score of A+ for its short-term care grade. In our short-term care rating, we strive to create a sound barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This nursing home offered more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in California in this area with 67.1 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. When determining our nursing scores, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides an incredible 5.7 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Out of that total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of nursing care, this place also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. With under five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category.
Long-term Care Quality
In our final category, this nursing home also received an impressive long-term care score, with a grade of A. This topped off an elusive straight A report card. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. Even though we determined this nursing home had an above average quantity of nursing hours provided by nurses aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccine statistics to be somewhat low. This nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 89.81481 percent of its patients. This is one statistic we'd like to see this nursing home improve. This nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.32 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Vi at La Jolla Village Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are often caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is vital to residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better