Westminster Baldwin Park

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. Short-term care scores are meaningful for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This score is based on the place's inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a facility. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its fine assessment, this nursing home also received a strong long-term care grade, with a score of A. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In our last area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our nursing rating. This rounded out an elite profile. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.