Elevate Care Lake Worth

This nursing home's nursing rating is notably more impressive than its overall score. With a strong performance in this category, it earned one of our better scores in nursing with a grade of B+. Nursing scores are largely based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home also received a positive grade in our short-term care category. We gave this facility an above average grade of B in this category. In computing our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is generally a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The final area we assessed was long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is a decent grade in this area. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 58.595642 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is several points below what we expected. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.