Luxe Rehabilitation Center at Wellington

We gave this nursing home an A- for our short-term care rating. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. In forming these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. 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. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

We also want to emphasize this place's nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of B+ in this category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses commit to patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most facilities. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this statistic. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning patients more often.

The next category we assessed is long-term care. We gave it a C in that area. This is not a bad grade in this category. In the category of long-term care, we weigh the amount of services offered by a nursing home, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted data regarding vaccinations. Finally, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.