Waverly Place of Stockton

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection grade. Its inspection grade was far superior to its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A-. Our inspection grades are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place 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 the government inspectors didn't 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 always a good sign.

Additionally, we gave this facility a grade of B+ in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our better scores. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 96.190475 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's next highest score is short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this area, it still performed relatively badly. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is more often than not a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Based on its grade in this category, we were not surprised to discover that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

The next category we scored was nursing, which was this facility's weakest category. We gave it a lowly F in this category, which is certainly a major concern. We looked at the skill-level of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses spent with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is quite a bit below average. In addition to rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these data points. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.