Winter Haven Post Acute and Rehabilitaiton Center

This nursing home's overall grade was propped up by the fact that it has earned favorable health inspections in recent years. We gave it a strong score in this area, with a grade of B. This is a much better grade than the facility's overall score. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility also received a positive short-term care score. As a matter of fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that area, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. In calculating these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in nursing. This facility earned a grade of B in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our nursing grade weighs several datapoints, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0.3 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home's least impressive category is long-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated only 90.02933 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.