De Luna Health and Rehabilitation Center

To go along with a favorable overall grade, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Nursing scores are primarily associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This particular facility provided 5.6 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This was one of the higher figures we found. In addition, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any facility in Florida when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these statistics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.

Turning the page to our third area, this nursing home received first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A in that category. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In our final category, we gave this facility an A+ for its short-term care rating. This rounded out a very strong profile. Our short-term care grade is typically used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.