Lake Worth Nursing Home

This nursing home received a nursing grade which is better than its overall grade. We awarded this nursing home an above average score of B+ in this area. When determining a facility's nursing rating, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are with patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a resident more frequently.

In addition, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was given positive short-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our more favorable scores in that category, with a grade of B+. This turned out to be the facility's second strongest score. Our short-term care grades are arguably most meaningful for residents requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility also earned favorable government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. This grade is also better than the facility's overall score. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Turning to our next category, this facility was awarded a C in long-term care, which is a respectable score. With our long-term care grade, we weigh the sheer quantity of care offered by a facility, along with a series of qualitative metrics. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.40741 percent of its residents, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.