Jacaranda Manor

Jacaranda Manor is located in Saint Petersburg, Florida, which features quite a few nursing homes. This nursing home received an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road grade. Saint Petersburg received a city grade of B, so there are other options in the city worth considering. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's report card is its remarkable inspection grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that area, with an A. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this facility's better category grades was in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B. It actually performed better than most nursing homes in this area. For residents looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 87.41845 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be a bit lower than we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. The last datapoint we looked at is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 2.73 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. Our nursing rating is based on quite a few datapoints, but the main one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.

Moving on to our fourth area, this nursing home did not perform very well. Due to a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is this facility's weakest area. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most critical for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing metrics we looked at. It offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.