Villa Pomerado D/P Snf

Villa Pomerado D/P Snf is a large non-profit nursing home located in Poway, California. This nursing home turns out to be an A+ rated facility, which is our very best rating. Indeed, we were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it as the top facility in Poway. If you look below, you will see this nursing home's category grades, which are also impressive.

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. Our nursing score analyzes many subcategories, however, the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place boasts a really impressive 5.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, of which a significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. This is among the higher totals of nursing hours we were able to find. In addition to providing high levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any facility in the nation when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care offered.

This facility also received an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This is based on the nursing home's inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the biggest complements we can pay to a facility. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

The third category we assessed is short-term care. This facility performed remarkably in our short-term care rating as well. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. This facility excelled at the highest level in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is an excellent sign. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in California in this area with 70.3 percent of its residents returning home.

Switching gears to our next category, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care category. We gave it a B+ for this area. This wrapped up a very strong report card. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. This nursing home's vaccination records weren't as favorable as its number of nursing hours per resident. This facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 90.85174 percent of its residents. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.62 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.