The Luxe at Jupiter Rehabilitation Center

To pair with its strong overall grade, this facility earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. When computing a facility's nursing score, we look at the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another quality feature for this facility is that it received an impressive short-term care score. In fact, this ended up being its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a B. Short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home also was awarded an impressive long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this category. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the final area we looked at, we found that this facility earned a solid government inspection report this year as well. As a result, it earned a decent grade in inspections with a B. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down deficiency data for this nursing home. We wish we had more data for this facility. Without having access to information regarding deficiencies, it is a challenge to fully evaluate the place in the area of inspections.