Fountainbleau Nursing Center

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Sadly, this nursing home's second most respectable category was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this category, it still fared relatively badly. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the facility didn't perform well in our measures relating to patient care. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. We were disappointed to learn that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 83.06189 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these datapoints to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

The final category we rated was short-term care. This facility was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that area. In our short-term care score, we seek to craft a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Given its score in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 3.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.