Victoria Care Center

Victoria Care Center is one of four available facilities located in Baldwin Park, California. We awarded this nursing home an overall rating of A-, which is an extremely impressive grade. As a matter of fact, this is actually the number one rated facility in the city. This is just about as good of a place as you're going to find. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong report card is its long-term care grade. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the elite level of care provided by nurses and other staff at this facility, we also were happy with the facility's vaccination data. By way of example, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 99.411766 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. The last statistic we assessed was its hospitalization rate. Although it had 2.38 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was close to the middle of the pack since it had some more complicated patients.

Adding to this nursing home's impressive resume, we gave this nursing home an A for inspections. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our nursing rating is largely tied to a facility's nurse staffing. With 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Lastly, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed as well as any facility the state when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next category we graded was short-term care, which turned out to be a weak spot for this facility. We awarded this nursing home a D in short-term care, making this the nursing home's worst category grade. We would nevertheless suggest that you look at the bigger picture. In computing our short-term care ratings, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is often a fair measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. It appears that this place was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we considered. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 14.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.