Orchid Cove at Venice

This facility received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Nursing grades are mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place 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.

Additionally, this nursing home also was awarded favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave them one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next category we graded is long-term care, in which we awarded it a strong grade of B. This facility truly did not have any weak grades. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. After considering the quantity of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 97.69231 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life threatening illness for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.