Deltona Health Care

Although we didn't give this nursing home a good overall grade, we actually gave it a relatively strong grade in the area of inspections, where it earned a B+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

We also awarded this facility a solid score in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a B-. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is considered to be a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We found that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. The facility supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. It is important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. The final item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 5.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Sadly, this nursing home's next best category is long-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 99.135445 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

The final category we looked at is nursing, is this nursing home's least impressive area. We awarded this nursing home a D in that area. The nursing grade assesses a handful of factors, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This particular place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is significantly below average. This nursing home also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This facility was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign in light of the fact that many bed sores could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.