Avante at Mt Dora

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home also earned top notch health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best grades in that category, with a grade of A+. Inspection scores weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was given strong grades in the category of long-term care as well. Indeed, we awarded it one of our best scores in that area with a area of A-. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 95.480225 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's short-term care grade ended up being one of its poorer features. Unfortunately, the nursing home was given a D in this area, which is well below average. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The final area we assessed is nursing, which ended up being this facility's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that category. Of course, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is well below average. Although this nursing home didn't excel in nursing hours, it surprised us in some of the quality-based metrics in the nursing category, such as avoiding serious falls. This facility was above average in this statistic, which was one redeeming quality we found in this category.