Terrace Health & Rehabilitation Center

With an address in Gainesville, Florida, Terrace Health & Rehabilitation Center is one of eight available facilities there. This facility was awarded an A- overall, which is one of our more impressive grades. In fact, we were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it ahead of the majority of the nursing homes in Gainesville, which has a strong selection of facilities. This facility's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection rating, which is addressed in the next section.

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this place also performed well in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. Our inspection scores are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home received an elite grade of A in our long-term care category. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 97.068405 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 3.2 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this wasn't as favorable as most of its other scores in this category, this statistic may be skewed for some nursing homes based on some of the preexisting medical conditions of residents.

This facility was given an impressive short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category with a grade of B. Short-term care grades are generally employed to measure a facility's rehabilitation services To have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. One of this place's strengths is the number of hours of physical therapy offered. We found it provides at least 1.5 times as many hours of physical therapy than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage 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 country in this area with 57.5 percent of its residents returning home.

The final area we assessed is nursing. This facility received an impressive nursing grade in our assessment, with a B. While this wasn't nearly as impressive as many of its other grades, this remains one of our stronger grades for that category. Our nursing rating analyzes quite a few factors, however, the most important one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is an impressive metric which typically correlates with quality care. Lastly, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it fared as well as any facility the country in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these statistics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.