Evans Health Care

Evans Health Care is in Fort Myers, Florida. This city has a population of 224,256 people. It looks like this facility is a relatively poor facility. A score of this caliber indicates we found some red flags. If you aren't happy with this facility's overall grade, you should be able to find a better option in Fort Myers. The city has at least 10 other nursing homes. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive inspection grade. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category grades

Although we didn't grade this nursing home favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent grade in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid facilities that had too many severe deficiencies. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We also awarded this nursing home a respectable score in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. In forming our long-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's personal care services. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.765434 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is more than most nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.49 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

This facility's third most favorable area was its short-term care score, where it was awarded a grade of C. In calculating our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The question is whether this also impacted quality of care. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in this area with 51.1 percent of its patients returning home. This is a better rate than most facilities.

The last category we rated was nursing, which ended up being a low point for this facility. We gave this nursing home a grade of D for our nursing category. Nursing scores are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is slightly below average. On top of its weak nursing hour totals, this nursing home received poor scores in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We found that more of this nursing home's residents sustained falls leading to major injury. We would argue that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this nursing home receiving a poor nursing score.