Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home located in Apopka, Florida, which has a total of 87,976 people. With an overall rating of D, this is a lower end nursing home. Keep in mind that Apopka received a city grade of B+, so should look at some other options in the city as well. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, long-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
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Long-term Care Quality
While we were not high on this facility overall, we gave it a grade of B for our long-term care rating. This grade is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. In fact, without this category, this place's profile would have been in serious trouble. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.41629 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Facility Inspections
We gave this facility a middle of the pack grade of C for our inspections category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. We weren't able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.
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Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing grade is based on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This place fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we assessed is short-term care, is this facility's worst area. We gave this facility a grade of D in that area. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is considered to be a useful assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. With its score in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.4 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 7.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 4.98% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are often linked to lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing protocols limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.24% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of long-term residents which sustained a UTI. UTI's may be an indicator of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric could also be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 3.09% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure indicates the percent of long-term care patients taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 12.47% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents which are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 98.45% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 13.33% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 15.9% of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels. Many argue that the ability to move around is vital to patients physical and mental well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 15.9% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 7.85% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 74.64% of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.