Promedica Manorcare Health Services West Palm Beach

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Nursing grades are mostly based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. With 4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the national average. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its residents sustaining falls leading to serious injury, this place performed as well as any nursing home in the nation.

Turning the page to our third area, this nursing home was given a dominant short-term care score. In that area, we gave this nursing home a A-. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This place excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it provided more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the typical facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in the nation with 51.4 percent of its patients able to return home.

The final category we assessed is nursing, was this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in that area. This was one of just a couple of weak links on a quality profile. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After considering nursing care provided by this facility, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. Based on its grade in this category, we were pleasantly surprised to find that this facility performed reasonably well both of these statistics. Indeed, this facility vaccinated 98.809525 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.