Whittier Nursing and Wellness Center
7926 S Painter Ave, Whittier CA 90602 · (562) 693-5618 · 88.33% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Whittier Nursing and Wellness Center is a small nursing home located in Whittier, California. This facility received an overall grade of C, which is a solid rating. Whittier received a city grade of B+, so there are other options in the city worth considering. The best part of this facility's profile is its stellar inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 36 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection grade was far better than its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category typically have few of these severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility an impressive grade in long-term care. This facility earned a B in this area, which turns out to be one of our more favorable scores. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the nursing home population. The last statistic we looked at was its hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 4.84 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this category, this figure may be skewed for some facilities based on some of the medical complexity of patients.
Nurse Quality
Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-, which is a decent grade. We weighed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with patients, in calculating our grade in this category. This place provides 4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is better than average. In calculating our grades, we add more weight to hours performed by more highly skilled nurses such as registered nurses. Lastly, we also assessed a few nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these datapoints. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this statistic.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's worst category is short-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. It received an abysmal F for this area. In spite of multiple acceptable scores in other categories, this score is nevertheless alarming so we would like to to point it out. In the area of short-term care, we try to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Given its score in this area, we were not stunned to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse hours provided to its residents. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 26.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. This statistic was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Whittier Nursing and Wellness Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have had falls which resulted in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of residents demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Many argue this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry argue that the ability to move around is important for patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better