Altercare of Navarre Center for Rehab & Nrsg Care

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its excellent government inspection reports in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Arguably the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility also was awarded an impressive grade in our short-term care category. We gave this facility a better than average grade of B in this area. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing rating. We gave this nursing home an D. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This place offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final category we graded was long-term care, which is a low point for this nursing home. We awarded this facility a D in long-term care. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.73016 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.