Florida Hospital Oceanside

One of the reasons this place ended up being a great nursing home is it received an A+ inspection grade. This is as good as it gets in this area. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. It doesn't look like we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many dominant scores, this facility was awarded first-rate short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a score of A in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is often a useful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. It does not appear that this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in determining our score in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to our final category, this nursing home was given a very strong long-term care grade. We gave it a grade of B+ in that area, rounding out one of our more impressive report cards. For residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.