Lake Worth Nursing Home

This nursing home's best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B+. It actually outpaced most facilities in this area. In calculating our nursing ratings, we assess both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility also received favorable inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a B. This is better than the facility's overall grade. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

The next area we graded was short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B. It actually outpaced most facilities in this area. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, we were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

The last category we scored is long-term care. This nursing home received a grade of C in the category. Our long-term care grades are more critical for those requiring more conventional assistance related to activities of daily living. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility administered the vaccine to 97.40741 percent of its patients, which is a very solid total. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.