Miami Nursing Center

This facility fared well in the category of long-term care, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. If it wasn't for this category, this nursing home's overall score would have been worse. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. The last statistic we assessed was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.53 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This nursing home also received favorable inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. This is better than its overall grade. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. Our nursing rating analyzes quite a few subcategories, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. While this place excelled in terms of quantity of nursing hours, it fell short in some of the datapoints that related to quality. This nursing home's nursing rating was hurt by its weak performance in the area of minimizing pressure ulcers. In fact, we found that 20 percent of this nursing home's patients suffered from pressure ulcers.

Moving on to our final category, this facility was awarded a grade of B- in short-term care, which is generally an acceptable rating. Our short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 44.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.