Haines City Health Care

One of the reasons this proved to be a quality facility is it received a very impressive short-term care score. Short-term care turned out to be its best category. In that area, we gave this facility an A. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is considered to be a meaningful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We also want to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Inspection grades are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a resident more frequently.

Turning to our last category, this nursing home was awarded a respectable long-term care grade. While this was not nearly as good as many of its other category grades, this is really nothing to be ashamed of. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.70238 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.