Florence Health Services

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility really outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A+. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

One of this facility's better category grades came in the category of short-term care. This turned out to be its second most respectable category. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. With our short-term care grade, we endeavor to create a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. The nursing grade considers a number of datapoints. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this statistic. This is often a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a patient more often.

This nursing home's weakest category was long-term care, which is the last category we analyzed. We gave it an abysmal F for this category. Even with a few respectable scores in other areas, this grade is nevertheless concerning so we would like to to point it out. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinated 99.27007 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.