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 short-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. In the area of short-term care, we strive to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. We weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Moving on our next category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for its long-term care score. This is a very strong score. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.5671 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to our next area, this facility was awarded a decent nursing rating. While this wasn't quite as impressive as several of its other scores, this is truly not a poor grade. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. While this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it did very well in this area. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving a patient at least once a day.