Windsor Skyline Care Center

Windsor Skyline Care Center is an average-sized facility located in Salinas, California. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B, which is a very respectable score. Based on our ratings, this place looks like a good fit for most people. This place was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to performing well in its overall score, this facility earned even higher marks in the area of nursing. In fact, we gave it one of our best scores in this category with a grade of A-. Nursing scores are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This facility provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also performed well in inspections. It received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. It received one of our best scores in that category with an B+. Few facilities with an overall grade in this range performed this well in multiple categories. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in 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 generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.

Additionally, this facility also received favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we awarded it one of our higher grades in that area, with a score of B. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This area is often a solid assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it performed better than most nursing homes in this area with 51.1 percent of its patients returning home.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of C in that category. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's personal care rather than the skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 92.36641 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is somewhat below what we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.19 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.