The Luxe at Jupiter Rehabilitation Center

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. It doesn't appear that we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without all of the deficiency data, it was difficult to really assess it in terms of this category.

Adding to its profile, this facility also received a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this area. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be more critical for individuals requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. When calculating our nursing scores, we weigh both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Florida in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving a resident at least once a day.

The last area we graded is long-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of B- in that category. In the area of long-term care, we look at the quantity of services offered by a facility, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Finally, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.