Westminster Baldwin Park

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home excelled in inspections, which is based on the facility's inspection reports. We awarded it an A for that area. Our inspection scores account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many impressive scores, this nursing home received a top-shelf short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A in that area. Our short-term care scores are thought to be more meaningful for residents in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This facility also was superb in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Very few facilities fared better in this category. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We weren't able to track down 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 figure.

In our final category, we awarded this nursing home an A for our nursing rating. This finished off a very favorable report card. Our nursing grade looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.