Centro Medico Del Turabo Snf

With an address in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Centro Medico Del Turabo Snf is one of just a couple nursing homes in this area. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is one of our more impressive scores. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top 25 percent of all facilities in the country. As you will find below, this facility also performed just fine in our category grades. It is hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. In calculating our short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is generally a solid assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. This turned out to be more of a strength for this facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Puerto Rico in this area with 67.1 percent of its residents returning home. At most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay patients return home.

To add to its top-shelf accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our long-term care rating. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Overall this looks like a good option in terms of its long-term care rating.

In addition, this facility also received excellent inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our best scores in that category, with an impressive grade of A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the final category we assessed, this facility was awarded a very favorable grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home wrapped up a very strong profile. The nursing score assesses quite a few components, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving patients even once per day.