Diplomat Healthcare

Although this facility's overall score was not a highlight, it actually received a very good grade in the category of inspections. In fact, we gave it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection scores are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this facility's second highest category is long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed relatively badly. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.76526 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

Turning to the category of short-term care, this facility was given just a D in that category. In calculating these short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Based on its score in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The last category we scored is nursing. It received a lowly F in this category, which is a rock bottom grade. Nursing scores are tied to levels of nurse staffing. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were far below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.