Luxe Rehabilitation Center at Wellington

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this nursing home also earned an elite short-term care grade. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with an A. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. When determining our nursing scores, we assess both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Turning to another of this nursing home's strengths, it also received a very impressive inspection grade. This turned out to be one of its best grades. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. Inspection ratings are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor dings aren't something to panic about.

The last area we looked at is long-term care, in which we awarded it an above average grade of B. This nursing home really didn't have any weak categories. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.