Promedica ManorCare Health Services-Venice

In addition to earning a strong overall score, this facility performed even better in the area of inspections which is based on the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. We gave it a grade of A for that area, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection grades are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

An additional quality feature for this nursing home is that it was awarded a favorable short-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In this category, we gave this nursing home a B+. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Florida in this area with 64.5 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

Turning to our third category, this nursing home also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this category. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 98.64865 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a dangerous condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 3.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this wasn't as strong as most of its other scores in this area, this figure may be skewed for some nursing homes due to the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

The final category we rated is nursing. We awarded this nursing home a decent score in this category, with a grade of C. Even though this was not as high as many of this nursing home's other grades, it is still not a terrible score. Our nursing score looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at a few nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these subcategories. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this subcategory. This is usually a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving residents even once per day.