Villa Maria Healthcare Center is located in Santa Maria, California. With an overall score of B, this nursing home is a great option. In our view, this nursing home looks like a good fit for quite a few people. The best part of this nursing home's report card was is its short-term care rating. We discuss short-term care in the next section.
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Villa Maria Healthcare Center
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Short-term Care Quality
One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is it received a very impressive short-term care score. In fact, short-term care turned out to be its best category. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Facility Inspections
This facility also excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that area. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
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Nurse Quality
Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. We looked at the skill-level of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 place California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving residents at least once a day.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we graded was long-term care, proved to be this facility's worst category. We gave this facility a D in this area. This really is one of just a couple of weak links in a quality profile. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is a very solid statistic. Surprisingly, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Villa Maria Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Villa Maria Healthcare Center, 10.3% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Villa Maria Healthcare Center, 3.1% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision. Additional nurse staffing minimizes the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Villa Maria Healthcare Center, 0.93% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with insufficient hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Villa Maria Healthcare Center, 9.33% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure is a measure of the percent of long-term residents which were administered antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Villa Maria Healthcare Center, 12.86% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percent of long-term residents who were administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Villa Maria Healthcare Center, 1.85% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients demonstrating signs of depression. Higher levels of depression may be an indicator lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Villa Maria Healthcare Center, 100% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Villa Maria Healthcare Center, 5.05% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and continence. Many would argue this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Villa Maria Healthcare Center, 5.15% of Residents
This is the percent of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Villa Maria Healthcare Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Villa Maria Healthcare Center, 5.15% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Villa Maria Healthcare Center, 8.46% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Villa Maria Healthcare Center, 88.21% of Resident
Measures the percent of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements.
Scores for Santa Maria, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
Looking for more options? Santa Maria, California has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita Central Coast Kidney Center1.53 miles away2263 S. Depot Street Santa Maria California 93455CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 41 (805) 349-8600
- Davita-Pismo Beach Dialysis18.82 miles away320 James Way, Suite 110 Pismo Beach California 93449CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 14 (805) 556-0577
- Lompoc Artificial Kidney Center, LLC19.85 miles away127 W. Pine Avenue Lompoc California 93436CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (805) 740-2000