Florentine Gardens

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in that area with an A-. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

Additionally, we also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received positive short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more favorable scores in this area, with a grade of B+. This turned out to be the nursing home's second best score. Short-term care grades are often employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The third highest category we awarded this nursing home in any category came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a C. Our long-term care grade focuses on a facility's personal care rather than the skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated a relatively low 83.40081 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next area we analyzed is nursing, ended up being this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this category. This really was one of just a few weak links on an otherwise strong profile. There are several data points included in this category. Most of the criteria are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.