Bonifay Nursing and Rehab Center

This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this category. Inspection grades are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home really excelled in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Very few facilities performed better in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of C in this category is by no means a bad score. The nursing score features a variety of factors. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is not an impressive total. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In fact, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final area we scored was short-term care, which is this facility's worst area. We gave this facility a D in this area. Sadly, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall profile a bit. Short-term care ratings are important for prospective residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 2.8 percent of its patients returning home.