Memorial Manor

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of long-term care. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. On top of patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination statistics was top notch also. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 99.609375 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.81 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as strong as some of its other scores in this area, this figure can be skewed for some nursing homes due to some of the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few places to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Moving on our third area, this nursing home was awarded an excellent short-term care score. In fact, it received a score of A in this category. Short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about 50% more services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is a very favorable sign. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Florida in this area with 58.1 percent of its patients returning home.

In the last category, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for our nursing score. This rounded out an elite profile. In determining our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided 4.8 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This was one of the better figures we found. Furthermore, a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its patients suffering falls resulting in serious injury, this place performed as well as any nursing home the country.