Concordia Village of Tampa

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home excelled in our short-term care category, where it earned a grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our short-term care grades are critical for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. Nursing scores are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided 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 place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also earned a very impressive inspection rating. In that area, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of B+. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

The next area we looked at is long-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our more favorable scores in this area, with a B. This facility ended up being very solid across the board. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 84.13174 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is somewhat below what we expected but still a respectable figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.