Jupiter Medical Center Pavilion

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it earned an A+ short-term care grade. This is as good as it gets in this area. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more important for patients in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection scores are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next category we looked at is long-term care. Adding to its impressive resume, this facility also excelled in that category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A for that category. For patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. It doesn't appear that this facility provided information about vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Moving on to our next area, this facility also performed well in the nursing category. We gave it an A for this category. This wrapped up a straight A profile. We looked at the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in calculating our score in this category. This facility provided 0.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.