Whittier Hospital Medical Center D/P Snf

With an address in Whittier, California, Whittier Hospital Medical Center D/P Snf is one of seven available nursing homes in the city. This nursing home turns out to be a grade A facility, which is a dominant grade. Indeed, this proved to be one of the three highest graded nursing homes in the city. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's exemplary profile is its long-term care grade. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ long-term care grade. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This facility's vaccination records were not as favorable as its nursing hours data. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 77.77778 percent of its residents. We would like to see some improvement in this area next year. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provides an incredible 9.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Out of that total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of nursing care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any nursing home in California in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on to the last area, this facility received an acceptable short-term care score. While this isn't nearly as strong as a few of its other scores, this is truly not a major area of concern. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is frequently a meaningful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.