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. Based on our ratings, this facility likely isn't a great fit for most people. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, nursing grades are discussed in the next section.
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Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
Note: Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
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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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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
Even though we gave this facility a poor overall grade, we actually gave it a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a B-. This was better than its other category scores. The nursing score includes a handful of datapoints, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's short-term care grade turns out to be one of its best scores. The nursing home was awarded a B- in this area. In computing our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is more often than not a meaningful measure of the facility's rehabilitation. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's third best category came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a B-. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.487434 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Facility Inspections
Looking to our last category of inspections, we gave this nursing home just a just D, which is a relatively poor grade. Our inspection rating is based on the nursing home's government inspections. Since this data is compiled by government inspectors, we place a great deal of weight on it in our overall grades. One of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We suggest you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. It does not look like we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.
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, 8.81% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term residents who are suffering from pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 5.03% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.54% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often linked to a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this datapoint could also be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 3.51% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This gauges the percentage of long-term care residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 14.01% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percent of long-term stay residents which are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 96.96% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 12.22% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 13.26% of Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents who maintained mobility. Many in the industry would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 13.26% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 6.16% of Patients
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Apopka Health and Rehabilitation Center, 76.03% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.