Shell Point Nursing Pavilion

Shell Point Nursing Pavilion is one of a multitude of options to select from in Fort Myers, Florida. This nursing home turns out to be an A+ rated facility, which is the best grade we offer. This facility even proved to be one of the better nursing homes in the city, which has as impressive a group of nursing homes as any city in the state. As you can find below, this place performed equally well in our category ratings. We gave it a straight A report card!

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. The nursing score analyzes a handful of subcategories, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 5.6 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This was one of the more impressive figures we found. In addition, a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this facility also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With less than 5 percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers could be avoided by offering better nursing care and a policy of turning residents at least once a day.

We also gave this facility a grade of A+ for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This facility offered more registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Florida in this area with 67.7 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

This facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Inspection grades are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category, this nursing home was given another A+ for its long-term care score. This wrapped up a truly elite report card of four A+'s. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of elite nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination data was as good as it gets also. Indeed, this facility vaccinated 99.763596 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.64 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.