NSPIRE Healthcare Miami Lakes

On top of receiving an elite overall score, this facility received an A+ inspection score. This grade is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

This nursing home really excelled in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Few facilities performed more favorably in this area. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. Our nursing score is based on many datapoints, however, the main one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, nursing grades also consider quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

The final category we analyzed is long-term care, in which this nursing home was given a B-. While this turned out to be its poorest category score, this is nevertheless not the end of the world. For residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.36066 percent of its patients. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.