Fountainbleau Nursing Center

While we graded this place incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a fairly impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that area with a B. Inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid nursing homes with too many severe deficiencies flagged. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

We were also stunned to discover that this facility received a somewhat respectable long-term care grade in our assessment. We awarded it a grade of B- in that category. In calculating our long-term care scores, we assess the personal care offered to a nursing home's residents. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 91.96787 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home ended up receiving a a terrible grade in our short-term care area. It received an F in this area. With our short-term care score, we attempt to forge a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Given its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

The next area we scored was nursing. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is a rock bottom score. There are many subcategories within this grade. Most of the subcategories reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. With a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This facility performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.