Coral Reef Subacute Care Center

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. There are many factors included in this grade. Many of these subcategories relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 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 frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving patients even once per day.

Another one of this facility's above average category scores came in the area of short-term care. We awarded them one of our stronger scores in that area, with a grade of B. Our short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 4.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable long-term care grades this year. Indeed, we gave them one of our stronger grades in that area, with a grade of B. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.81516 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In the last category we looked at, we found that this facility received a solid inspection report this year as well. It received a decent score in our inspection category with a B-. We believe that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.