Advanced Health Care of Paradise

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ in short-term care. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more critical for patients in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.2 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Not many nursing homes performed as well in this area. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. There are several factors within this grade. Most of these subcategories are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning patients even once per day.

The next area we looked at is long-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a grade of B. While this proved to be its least impressive category grade, this is nevertheless an above average grade. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.