Signature Healthcare of Port Charlotte

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this facility an A for short-term care. With our short-term care grade, we try to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we gave this nursing home an A- for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Compounding its high-end resume, this nursing home also was given a strong long-term care score, with a score of A-. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 99.747475 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The last category we rated is nursing. In this category, we awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B. Our nursing grade is largely tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as reliable indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.