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
Wellsprings Post Acute Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
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
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