Ruleme Center

Ruleme Center is a nursing home located in Eustis, Florida. This city has a population of 29,765 people. Sporting an overall grade of B+, this looks like a very good facility. We were pleased to find out that this matched the average grade of facilities in Eustis, which is one of the better cities in Florida to find a nursing home. Fortunately, this nursing home didn't have any poor grades in any of the major categories discussed below. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.

To pair with a favorable overall grade, we awarded this facility an A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

We also gave this nursing home a score of A for our short-term care grade. In our short-term care category, we endeavor to forge a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation with 59.4 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is an impressive figure which typically leads to higher quality care. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients sustaining falls leading to major injury, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we looked at is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of B-. Although this wound up being its weakest category grade, this is nevertheless not a bad grade. Our long-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's amount of nursing care. This includes a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. On top of above average nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination statistics are fairly strong as well. In fact, it vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.15 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes.