Miami Nursing Home

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a B- for our long-term care rating. In our long-term care rating, we assess the amount of care provided by a nursing home, along with a series of quality statistics. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility vaccinated 99.570816 percent of its residents, which is a very solid statistic. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also awarded this nursing home a decent grade in the area of short-term care, where it received a C. With our short-term care assessment, we attempt to craft a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Sadly, this facility received a grade of just D in our inspection category. This is well below average grade. Inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. This particular facility was assessed 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we also need to point out that this facility received large government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This typically signifies that a bad track record has been an issue for more than one year.

The next category we scored was nursing, which ended up being a low point for this nursing home. We gave this facility a D for our nursing category. Our nursing score weighs many components, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This particular place averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This number is far below the national average. On top of performing poorly in terms of nursing hours, this facility also had terrible scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home was at more than double the national average in both of these data points. This is quite concerning when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing this nursing home's fate of receiving a very poor nursing score.