White Memorial Medical Center Dp

White Memorial Medical Center Dp is a nursing home in Los Angeles, California which has 2,378,448 people. Featuring an overall rating of A+, this nursing home turned out to be a far better option than most of the nursing homes in Los Angeles. Even in a city of 79 nursing homes, this nursing home caught our attention as a first-rate selection. Finally, this appears to be a very consistent facility with consistently strong grades in each of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. This nursing home is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. It supplied about 50% more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. This is what we look for when grading a nursing home in this category. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that returned home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in the country in this area with 74.1 percent of its residents returning home.

This top-shelf nursing home also fared very well in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. This place knocked it out of the park in this category.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Switching gears to the last category, this nursing home received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that category, giving this facility straight A's. There are several criteria included in this area. Most of the criteria are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This place boasts a really impressive 7.1 hours of nursing care per resident daily, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to providing impressive levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any facility in the nation in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these areas as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered.