Grand Boulevard Health and Rehabilitation Center

Grand Boulevard Health and Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home located in Miramar Beach, Florida, which has 5,867 people. We awarded this facility an A overall grade, ranking it in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the nation. We simply can not say enough favorable things about this nursing home. Finally, this turned out to be a very consistent facility with consistent grades in all four of our categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing grade includes quite a few subcategories, but the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.4 hours per resident per day. This is more nursing care than nearly any other place provides. Finally, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it fared as well as any facility the country when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.

We also want to point out the fact that this nursing home received a superb score of A- in our short-term care area. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes with 54.6 percent of its patients returning home. This is a higher rate than most nursing homes.

In the final category we assessed, this nursing home was awarded an impressive grade grade of A- in our long-term care category. With this score, the nursing home rounded out a straight A profile. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of offering elite levels of nursing care, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.98305 percent of its patients. This statistic is also far better than the average nursing home. The last statistic we assessed was its hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 2.12 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.