Miami Shores Nursing and Rehab Center
9380 Nw 7th Avenue, Miami FL 33150 · (305) 759-8711 · 97.07% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Miami Shores Nursing and Rehab Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Miami, Florida. This nursing home is an A rated facility. This facility was given one of the best ratings that we offer. A grade in this range requires excellent scores across the board. Despite Miami offering 37 other nursing homes available, this facility stood out as a first-rate option. Headlining this facility's remarkable report card is its long-term care grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 99 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination records is first-rate as well. In fact, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This combination proved to be effective as this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.28 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a substantially lower hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.
Nurse Quality
This first-rate facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing grades are primarily associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 4.9 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is an extremely impressive statistic which typically correlates with higher quality care. Finally, this place also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any facility the country when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Facility Inspections
Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our inspection grades are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we scored ended up being this nursing home's poorest area. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still gave it an acceptable grade of B- for short-term care. In calculating our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 19.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their residents return home so this facility is below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Miami Shores Nursing and Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from remaining in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This figure tells you the percent of long-term residents which suffered a fall leading to major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often caused by a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this metric could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric tells you the percent of long-term residents which are given antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents with cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who are showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percentage of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better