Cypress Care Center

With an address in Wildwood, Florida, Cypress Care Center is the sole facility we were able to find in this city. With an overall grade of D, this is a relatively poor nursing home. At the end of the day, we'd struggle to recommend this place. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is inspections, which is discussed in the next section.

Although this nursing home's overall score is not a highlight, it received a slightly more favorable grade in the category of inspections. We awarded it a B- for that category, which is a decent score. Our inspection scores are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

The next most favorable area we gave this facility in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are critical for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it was respectable in this area with 48.1 percent of its residents returning home.

The next most favorable category we awarded this nursing home in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a C. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal 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 looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 93.09734 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is slightly below what we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 1.24 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a significantly better hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.

The final area we analyzed was nursing. We gave it a C in this area. This is not a bad grade in this category. The nursing grade analyzes quite a few data points, most of which are tied to nursing hours. According to CMS records, this nursing home averaged 4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Keep in mind that when we calculate our nursing grades, we apply more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of training. Although this place excelled in terms of quantity of nursing hours, it fell short in certain subcategories that focused on quality. This place's nursing grade was pulled down by its weak performance in the area of minimizing pressure ulcers. We found that 12.7 percent of this facility's residents were suffering from pressure ulcers.