Victoria Post Acute Care

Victoria Post Acute Care is a nursing home in El Cajon, California, which has 165,433 people. This nursing home received an overall grade of A-. In fact, this is ranked among the three highest graded nursing homes in the city. We simply can not say enough good things about this facility. The best aspect of this facility's impressive profile was its short-term care rating. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph

On top of receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in our shot-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is considered to be a meaningful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be a real strength for this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities with 68 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. There are several subcategories within this area. Many of the criteria reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Lastly, this place was also above average in each of the major quality measures we looked at in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Racking up yet another strong category grade, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an impressive grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

The next category we rated was long-term care. We gave this facility an acceptable grade in that area, with a grade of B-. Although this wasn't as dominant as some of its other grades, it is still a middle of the pack score. In the category of long-term care, we assess the amount of care provided by a nursing home, rather than more sophisticated services. In addition to providing above average levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 99.69788 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.