Raydiant Health Care of North Fort Myers

On top of faring well in its overall grade, this nursing home received even higher grades in the category of short-term care. It received one of our best scores in that category with a score of A. Our short-term care grades are thought to be more meaningful for individuals needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on its inspections. In fact, we gave it an B+ for that area. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. We analyzed the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with residents, in calculating our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we rated is long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a strong grade of B. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 90.56047 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.