Coral Bay Healthcare and Rehabilitation

While this nursing home earned a decent overall grade, its inspections rating is notably better than its overall grade. Due to a strong government inspection report this year, it earned a strong score in that category with a grade of B+. Inspection grades are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an B. In determining our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Florida in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving a patient more often.

The third category we looked at was long-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B- in this area. For patients looking for a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this facility vaccinated 99.39024 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last area we scored is short-term care. This facility was awarded a C in this category. Short-term care grades are meaningful for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 3.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.