Miami Shores Nursing and Rehab Center

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.