Alexander Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home is an average-sized government-owned nursing home in Hollywood, Florida. We gave this facility an A- overall grade, ranking it in the top quarter of all facilities in the country. We could not find many bad things to say about this nursing home. Its scores are just impeccable. We also gave this nursing home impressive ratings in all four of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Alexander Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
Grade: A-minus
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Government - State
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Facility Inspections
Grade: A
One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is it received an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections ended up being its best category. In this area, we gave this facility a grade of A. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Short-term Care Quality
Grade: A
To complement its elite achievements in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a score of A for its short-term care grade. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is considered to be a useful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
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Nurse Quality
Grade: A-minus
To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. In computing our nursing ratings, we factor in both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Florida 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 employing a system of moving patients more often.
Long-term Care Quality
Grade: B
Moving on to our last area, this facility received a very strong long-term care rating. Even though this isn't as impressive as several of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of our more favorable grades a facility can receive. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Alexander Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
Grade: F
In Alexander Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home, 17.7% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term patients which suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are an measure of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
Grade: B
In Alexander Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home, 3.07% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing care can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
Grade: D
In Alexander Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home, 4.58% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of nursing care . UTI's are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
Grade: C
In Alexander Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home, 20.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
Grade: B-plus
In Alexander Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home, 17.11% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic measures the percent of long-term residents who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are commonly used to treat residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
Grade: A+
In Alexander Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home, 0% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Grade: B
In Alexander Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home, 97.21% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Grade: B-plus
In Alexander Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home, 11.49% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the decline of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Grade: B
In Alexander Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home, 16.18% of Residents
This tells you the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
Grade: B-minus
In Alexander Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Grade: B
In Alexander Nininger State Veterans Nursing Home, 16.18% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of residents.
Scores for Hollywood, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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