University East Rehabilitation Center

University East Rehabilitation Center is located in Deland, Florida. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of F. Based on our analysis, this facility likely isn't a good fit for anyone. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is short-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

Even though we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable short-term care score this year. We gave it a B- in that category, which was the closest thing to a bright spot we can find for this nursing home. With our short-term care rating, we attempt to create a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We were extremely impressed to find that this facility offers its patients substantially more physical therapist staffing than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.

This nursing home excelled in nursing, where it earned an D. Our nursing grade is mostly tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also did not fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.

We wanted to point out this place's inspection score where it received an F. For places that received this poor of an inspection grade, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility was assessed a category G through L deficiency, which are among the more severe categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by CMS had the potential to cause actual harm to patients. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this place received significant government fines totaling over $100,000. This generally indicates that a facility's poor track record has been an issue for more than one year.

The next category we assessed was long-term care. This nursing home received an abysmal grade of F in that category. Facilities that don't score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this facility vaccinated only 73.5849 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 1.64 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.