Florence Home

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection score. Inspections turned out to be its best category grade. In this area, we awarded this facility an A. Our inspection grades are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents even once per day.

This nursing home is also above average in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of B. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this area. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 86.71875 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final area we rated is short-term care, in which this nursing home was given a grade of B-. Although this wound up being its worst category rating, this is nevertheless not a terrible score. Short-term care grades are important for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 4.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.