View Heights Convalescent Hospital
12619 S. Avalon Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90061 · (323) 757-1881 · 95.27% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
View Heights Convalescent Hospital is a large nursing home in Los Angeles, California. Featuring an overall score of B, this facility is a slightly superior option to many of the facilities in Los Angeles. Even in a city with 79 other nursing homes, this nursing home ought to be a sound selection. The best part of this facility's impressive report card was its inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 163 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
On top of earning a strong overall grade, this facility fared even better in our inspections category which is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. We awarded it an A for this category, which is one of our highest scores. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it was awarded a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this area. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 45.666664 percent of its patients. This is somewhat less than we expected. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.91 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our nursing category includes a handful of components, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 nursing home California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a resident more frequently.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the final category, we awarded this facility a grade of D for the area of short-term care. This was the nursing home's weakest category score. Sadly, this grade hurt the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is generally a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. It looks like this place was subpar in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the data we looked at. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
View Heights Convalescent Hospital Quality Metrics
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have experienced a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who had a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of residents showing signs of depression. High levels of depression could reveal a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and eating. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who maintained mobility. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is important for residents' physical and mental health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better