Manorcare Health Services Boynton Beach

Manorcare Health Services Boynton Beach is a facility located in Boynton Beach, Florida, a city with 155,385 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of B+. A score of this caliber requires above average marks in most areas. Remarkably, the nursing homes in Boynton Beach received high scores across the board, making this one of the better places in Florida to find a nursing home. This nursing home was stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home fared well in our short-term care category. We awarded it an A for that category. In computing our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This category is often a solid assessment of a facility's rehabilitation. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in this area with 57.2 percent of its patients returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this statistic.

In addition, this facility also performed well in inspections, which is based on its inspection reports. We gave it an A for that area, which is one of our highest grades. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. There are quite a few datapoints within this grade. Most of these datapoints relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provides an impressive 3.8 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Of this total, more than one quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is among the most skilled levels of nurses. We apply more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses in computing our nursing scores. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented with better nursing care.

The final category we assessed was long-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a grade of C. Although this ended up being its lowest category rating, this is still not the end of the world. Our long-term care grades are more important for patients requiring more conventional assistance related to activities of daily living. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.78118 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.74 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.