Port Orange Nursing and Rehab Center

In addition to performing well overall, this facility also received nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A+. Inspection ratings are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given a first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, this ended up being this facility's second best category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.61089 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't take any chances. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Contributing to its first-rate assessment, this nursing home also was given a strong short-term care grade, with a score of A-. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is frequently a reliable assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The final category we assessed was nursing. We awarded this facility an acceptable grade in that area, with a C. Even though this isn't as high as many of this nursing home's other scores, it is nevertheless not a poor grade. When determining our nursing grades, we look at both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing grades also consider some quality-focused measures. We especially look at the percent of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these data points are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care can reduce these issues.