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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this nursing home's impressive category grades came in the area of long-term care. We awarded them one of our higher grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are kept in good health. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.86363 percent of its patients. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our nursing rating analyzes the facility's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we rated was short-term care, where this nursing home was given a B. This facility turned out to be relatively strong in all areas we analyzed. In our short-term care assessment, we seek to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.