Centro Medico Wilma N Vazquez Snf is a small hospital-based facility located in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. With an overall grade of B, this nursing home has the distinction of being one of the top 10 facilities in Puerto Rico. This is a quality nursing home in a state that does not have an endless supply of elite nursing homes. Based on the data we reviewed, you could do much worse than this nursing home. If you look below, you will see this facility's category scores, which are also quite good.
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Centro Medico Wilma N Vazquez Snf
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Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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Registered Staff Hours
Long-term Care Quality
To pair with its strong overall grade, this facility earned a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
Another quality feature for this nursing home is that it was given a very positive short-term care score. Indeed, this proved to be its second best category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a B+. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is frequently a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Facility Inspections
This facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
The final category we graded was nursing, where this facility was awarded a B. This nursing home did not turn out to have any weak links. Nursing ratings are primarily tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Centro Medico Wilma N Vazquez Snf Quality Metrics
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Centro Medico Wilma N Vazquez Snf, 87.45% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.