Dade Health and Rehab

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home has received near flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our inspection grades are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so well is that it was given a strong long-term care grade. Indeed, long-term care turned out to be its second most impressive category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.45355 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. The nursing grade analyzes several factors, however, the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 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 nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we graded is short-term care, where this nursing home received a B. This facility ended up being relatively strong in each category we looked at. Short-term care grades are critical for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.