Advanced Health Care of Paradise

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this facility received an A+ in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care grades are presumably more important for folks in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. 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 score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last category we scored is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a B-. This actually turned out to be this facility's weakest category. This is nevertheless not a terrible score. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home provided vaccination data. Lastly, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.