Windsor Gardens Convalescent Center of Long Beach

Windsor Gardens Convalescent Center of Long Beach is a large nursing home in Long Beach, California. This facility was given an extremely poor overall score based on the data we assessed. Keep in mind that Long Beach received a city grade of B-, so should look at other options in the city as well. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

This place did not perform quite as poorly in long-term care. In fact, we gave it a C for that category. In the area of long-term care, we look at the quantity of services provided by a facility, rather than more healthcare-oriented services. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.53988 percent of its patients. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. With 1.91 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home is not too far off the national average.

This nursing home really excelled in the category of nursing, where it earned an C. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. Our nursing score is primarily tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as minimizing major falls. This nursing home performed admirably in this datapoint.

This nursing home's second least favorable score was short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a well below average grade. Short-term care grades are commonly used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Not surprisingly based on its score in this area, this facility was well below average in one of the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility supplied significantly fewer registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last item we considered in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area, with just 28 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

Unfortunately, this facility did not receive a favorable inspection score. We gave it a just D in this category. Inspection scores relate to a nursing home's inspection reports. Our inspection scores weigh many items found on the nursing home's inspection reports. When you see too many deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is generally the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This facility was assessed one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies found by CMS had potential to cause actual harm to residents. Lastly, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines exceeding $50,000. This usually signifies that government inspectors became fed up after multiple years of bad inspections.