Life Care Center of Winter Haven

On top of earning a strong overall grade, this facility performed even better in the area of inspections which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. In fact, we gave it an A for this category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection scores are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This category is frequently a meaningful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. We weren't able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This nursing home received a strong long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area with a score of B. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.62687 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final area we scored was nursing. In that area, we awarded this facility a solid grade of B-. This ended up being this nursing home's worst category. Our nursing grade assesses several factors, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we like to look at quality-based statistics, such as the percent of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these data points are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.