Richmond Beach Rehab

While we were not complementary of this nursing home's overall score, it actually earned an impressive nursing rating this year. We gave it a B in this area. Nursing grades are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provided 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which was above average. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering falls leading to serious injury, this nursing home outpaced the national average. This is usually a reliable indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses and better safety protocols are in place.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category scores came in the category of short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B. It actually outperformed most facilities in this category. In our short-term care rating, we endeavor to create a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that it performed better than most facilities in this area with 50.8 percent of its patients returning home.

This nursing home's second lowest score is long-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a well below average score. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. After considering the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 91.55844 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.28 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.

In our last category of inspections, this facility received a terrible score. We weight this grade more heavily than other categories. For nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home was assessed a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious categories of deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies uncovered by inspectors had potential to pose actual harm to patients. Finally, this facility also received 13 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.