Edgewater at Boca Pointe

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of long-term care. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 98.92473 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a dangerous health condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also gave this facility a score of A+ for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes 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 assessed the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 6.9 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Continuing with its first-class performance, this nursing home also received an A+ inspection score. This is based on its recent government inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. Inspection scores are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last area we assessed, this facility was awarded great marks in the category of nursing also. As a result, it was awarded an A+. This rendered it one of just a few of nursing homes we gave A+'s in all four categories. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state 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 employing a protocol of turning patients even once per day.