Healthcare and Rehab of Sanford

Healthcare and Rehab of Sanford is a nursing home in Sanford, Florida, which has 78,268 people. It looks like this is a good nursing home. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a very solid rating. This facility truly has plenty working in its favor. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes fared better in that area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Another one of this facility's quality category scores came in the area of short-term care. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a score of B. In forming these short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most facilities we looked at. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it was respectable in this area with 45.7 percent of its patients able to return home.

The third area we assessed was long-term care. This facility was awarded a favorable long-term care grade, with a B in the area. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.61496 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. The last datapoint we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.69 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

The final category we rated is nursing. This facility was given a B- for the category. Nursing scores are mostly associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.