AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received an excellent short-term care score. We gave it an A in that area. Short-term care grades are generally employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

On the list of its many elite scores, this nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 95.740364 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep 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 figure.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor dings aren't something to panic about.

In the last category we looked at, this facility was given a very strong grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home wrapped up a very favorable profile. Our nursing grade is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving residents more frequently.