Wellsprings Post Acute Center

Nursing Home
Memory Care

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Wellsprings Post Acute Center's website

44445 No.15th St. West,
Lancaster CA 93534

(661) 948-7501

49.49% estimated occupancy ¹

Wellsprings Post Acute Center is a very-large nursing home located in Lancaster, California. This facility is a well below average nursing home. A score of this caliber suggests we found a few red flags. Based on our assessment, this place may not be a great fit for most people. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its strong nursing rating. You can continue reading to find out about nursing and other category scores

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Hospice
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Dialysis Transportation
Medical Transportation
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Palliative Care
Dentistry
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Podiatry
Mental Health
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Laboratory
X-Ray
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Optometry
Audiology
Colostomy Care
Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Catheter Care

Registered Staff Hours

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Nurse Quality

While we were down on this facility overall, we gave it a grade of B+ for our nursing rating. This grade is much more impressive than its overall score. Our nursing score consists of many subcategories, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Long-term Care Quality

The next best category we gave this facility in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After we finished assessing the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinated 99.803535 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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Facility Inspections

Among this facility's worst category grades was an F for its inspection score. More often than not, this indicates we found red flags on the facility's inspections. When a nursing home has this poor of an inspection rating, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This facility was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by CMS had potential to cause actual harm to residents. Finally, this facility also received 19 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

Short-term Care Quality

Moving on to the final area, this facility really didn't fare very well here either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Considering its score in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the figures we looked at. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Wellsprings Post Acute Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Wellsprings Post Acute Center, 7.45% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who are suffering from pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Wellsprings Post Acute Center, 1.7% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents that sustained falls resulting in serious injury. We use this statistic in determining nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Wellsprings Post Acute Center, 1.24% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by poor nursing care. Additional nurse staffing limits the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Wellsprings Post Acute Center, 10.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for many medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Tragically, in some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Wellsprings Post Acute Center, 13.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents which were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically used to treat residents experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Wellsprings Post Acute Center, 4.64% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Wellsprings Post Acute Center, 95.44% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Wellsprings Post Acute Center, 7.92% Percentage of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and using the bathroom. Many would argue that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Wellsprings Post Acute Center, 12.45% Percentage of Residents

This metric tracks the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

In Wellsprings Post Acute Center, 1.61 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of long-term care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Wellsprings Post Acute Center, 12.45 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Wellsprings Post Acute Center, 9.83 Percentage of Patients

This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Wellsprings Post Acute Center, 79.79% Percentage of Resident

This is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements.

Scores for Lancaster, CA

Overall Rating has a grade of D
Nurse Rating has a grade of B
Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
Inspection Rating has a grade of C

Looking for more options? Lancaster, California has 4 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

Antelope Valley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.11 miles away1600 W Ave J Lancaster California 93534Government - Hospital District or Authority(661) 949-5000
Palmdale Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.28 miles away38600 Medical Center Drive Palmdale California 93552Proprietary(661) 382-5000

Nearby Dialysis

Davita-Antelope Valley Dialysis0.36 miles away1759 W. Avenue J, Suite 102 Lancaster California 93534CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 30 (661) 942-6400
Antelope Valley Kidney Institute0.63 miles away43932 15th Street, Suite 103 Lancaster California 93534CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (661) 945-7755
Fmc-Antelope Valley1.09 miles away44950 Valley Central Way, Suite 108 Lancaster California 93536CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (661) 729-5680
High Desert Hemodialysis7.12 miles away1007 W. Avenue M-14, Suite B Palmdale California 93551Dialysis Stations: 10 (661) 265-7810
Davita Palms Valley Dialysis7.31 miles away38454 5th Street West Palmdale California 93551Dialysis Stations: 34 (661) 267-9910
Davita-Palmdale Regional Dialysis8.35 miles away1643 E. Palmdale Blvd. Palmdale California 93550CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (661) 540-0925
East Palmdale Dialysis Center8.86 miles away2710 E. Palmdale Blvd. Palmdale California 93550Dialysis Stations: 20 (661) 456-1500