Jacksonville Memorial Hospital

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also received A+ government inspections recently. Its inspections are virtually flawless. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was strong in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Few nursing homes received a better grade in this area. Short-term care grades are typically used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home also received a dominant long-term care grade. This actually turned out to be its third strongest category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A-. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were not able to track down information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In our last category, this facility also was awarded an excellent nursing score, with a grade of B+. This finished off a very impressive report card. There are several subcategories included in this area. Many of these subcategories are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.