Panama City Health and Rehabilitation Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection scores account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. We gave it an B+ in that area. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving patients more often.

The third category we graded was long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. Long-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of nursing services. This includes a vast range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. It does not appear that this facility provided data regarding vaccinations. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next category we assessed is short-term care, in which this nursing home was given a C. This actually was this facility's least impressive category. This is still nothing to be ashamed of. Short-term care ratings are crucial for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 2.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.