Florida Baptist Retirement Center

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also received first-rate government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category, with a grade of A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Adding to this nursing home's list of accomplishments, it also was awarded a top-shelf short-term care grade. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

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+. There are numerous datapoints included in this area. Many of these datapoints are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's worst area is long-term care, which is the last category we looked at. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category. Even with several strong grades in other areas, this score is still somewhat alarming so we would like to to point it out. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After we finished assessing the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 94.117645 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place 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. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.