Clermont Health and Rehabilitation Center

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, we gave it one of our highest scores in this category with an A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining 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 deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. This facility was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its top-shelf achievements in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A for our long-term care rating. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.66555 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most facilities in this category. Short-term care grades are often used to grade a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

In the final category we rated, this facility received a very favorable grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home finished off an elite report card. Our nursing grade includes numerous data points. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.