Panama City Health and Rehabilitation Center

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing score is largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next best category we awarded this facility in any category came in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. It does not appear that this facility provided data regarding vaccinations. Finally, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we looked at proved to be this nursing home's weakest area. However, even in its worst category we still gave it an acceptable grade of C in short-term care. Our short-term care grade is often employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. We weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 2.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.