Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is a large nursing home located in Defuniak Springs, Florida. Featuring an overall score of A, this facility is one of the best nursing homes we assessed. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. Headlining this facility's stellar report card is its inspection reports, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Optometry
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving an elite overall rating, this nursing home received an A+ inspection score. This score is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a nursing home. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home received a superb grade of A in our short-term care category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is typically a useful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
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Nurse Quality
This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing rating weighs quite a few components, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
In the last category, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our long-term care score. This wrapped up an elite profile. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.49246 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 4.03% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 3.52% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 0.87% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely linked to worse hygiene protocols. More frequent bathing minimizes the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 5.88% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term residents which were administered antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such drugs aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 14.83% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term care patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 9.72% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 99.25% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 8.13% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of erosion of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 10.5% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who maintained mobility. Many in the industry argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 10.5% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 10.05% 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 Chautauqua Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 90.53% of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living typically correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Healthmark Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.57 miles away4413 Us Hwy 331 S Defuniak Springs Florida 32435Proprietary(850) 951-4500
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Defuniak Springs2.43 miles away43 Shoemaker Dr Defuniak Springs Florida 32433Dialysis Stations: 19 (850) 892-2119