Gainesville Health Care Center

To pair with its favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was given strong grades in the category of long-term care as well. Indeed, we gave it one of our most dominant scores in that area with a area of A-. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.42197 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also awarded this nursing home a solid grade in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of B-. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This score is more often than not a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well below average.

The final category we graded was nursing. We awarded this nursing home a solid grade in this area, with a grade of B-. Although this wasn't as high as a few of this facility's other scores, it is nevertheless not a poor grade. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses are with residents as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.