Coquina Center

On top of being a quality facility overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Not many facilities performed better in that area. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Among this nursing home's other strengths is its elite short-term care score. We awarded them one of our more impressive grades in that category, with a score of A-. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. The nursing rating consists of many subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, nursing ratings also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

Switching gears to the fourth category, this nursing home did not perform very well. With a very poor grade of F in this area, this was clearly this facility's poorest category. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 94.347824 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.