Madison Health and Rehabilitation Center

Madison Health and Rehabilitation Center is a small nursing home located in Madison, Florida. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is a very strong grade. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top third of all facilities in the nation. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card was its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also received A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection scores are tied to many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of elite nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination data is as good as it gets as well. Indeed, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. The last datapoint we assessed is its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.16 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. In calculating our nursing ratings, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. With 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this place surpassed the vast majority of facilities. Lastly, we also looked at nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The last category we looked at was short-term care, in which this facility was given a grade of B-. Even though this proved to be its weakest category score, this is still not a poor grade. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 31.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this is below average.