Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hosp & Trauma Snf
1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco CA 94110 · (415) 206-8283 · 98.66% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hosp & Trauma Snf is just one of 19 options in San Francisco, California. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of A+. As a result, it is one of the better nursing homes in San Francisco, which is ranked among the best cities in the country in terms of its nursing home quality. You really can not do much better than this facility. Finally, this turned out to be a very consistent facility with consistent grades in all of the major categories. More information about its category grades is available below.
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Accepts Medicaid 1 : 30 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also performed well in our long-term care category, where it received an impressive grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the datapoints we considered on top of this facility's quality nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Nursing ratings are primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 5.9 hours of nursing care per patient each day, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any facility. In addition to offering impressive levels of nursing care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any nursing home in the country in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these metrics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we analyzed is short-term care. This nursing home also was given an A+ short-term care grade, rendering it one of the few nursing homes to be awarded more than one A+ category grades. Our short-term care grade is often employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. 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. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. This place outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country with 56 percent of its patients returning home.
Facility Inspections
Finally, this nursing home also earned excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best grades in that area, with an impressive grade of A. Few nursing homes can boast of receiving an A- or better in every category. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hosp & Trauma Snf Quality Metrics
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often caused by facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This gauges the percentage of long-term care residents which are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. High levels of depression could imply worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term care patients that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts believe that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better