Vibra Hospital of Northern California D/P Snf

On top of performing well overall, this facility received even higher grades in our short-term care rating. It received one of our best scores in that category with an A. Short-term care grades are typically used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. The nursing category weighs quite a few datapoints, many of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a patient more frequently.

In addition, this facility also received first-rate inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of B+. Our inspection ratings are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this nursing home received an acceptable long-term care rating. Even though this was not nearly as elite as many of its other scores, this is truly not the end of the world. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.