Kindred Hospital South Florida Hollywood

We also found that this nursing home excelled in our short-term care rating. We gave them a grade of A+ in this category. Our short-term care scores are probably most important for folks needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to its dominant achievements in other areas, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for its long-term care score. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. This nursing home is as good as it gets in this area.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing score assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures 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 facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a resident more frequently.

Wrapping up this nursing home's impressive profile, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A- for our inspections rating. With this score, the facility completes its straight A report card. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.