Belleair Health Care Center

We also wanted to point out the fact that this facility has received near flawless health inspections recently. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Nursing ratings are mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also was awarded a favorable long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it an above average score of B+ in this category. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.03537 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final category we graded is short-term care. We gave this nursing home a decent grade in this category, with a grade of B-. While this was not as high as many of this nursing home's other grades, it is still not a major area of concern. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. We weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.