Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers

Nursing Home
Memory Care

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers's website

210 Lake Avenue,
Orlando FL 32801

(407) 872-7088

80.65% estimated occupancy ¹

Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers is in Orlando, Florida. The city provides a variety of nursing home options. Featuring an overall rating of A, this facility is ranked among the highest graded nursing homes in Orlando, which is actually ranked among the most promising cities in Florida in terms of its nursing home scores. We simply can't say enough favorable things about this place. This facility also received very consistent scores in each of our categories. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
Is CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Corporation
Secure Memory Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Speech Therapy
Amputee Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Dentistry
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Mental Health
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Laboratory
X-Ray
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Optometry
Audiology
Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Lymphedema Care

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Facility Inspections

On top of being an elite nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Few facilities performed this well in this area. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

An additional reason we rated this facility so highly is that it received an A+ long-term care score. This is flat out as strong as it gets in this area. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 99.51923 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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Short-term Care Quality

Additionally, this facility also was awarded favorable short-term care scores this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Short-term care grades are typically used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. We were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Nurse Quality

The final area we looked at was nursing, where this facility received a grade of B+. This completed an elite profile. Not many nursing homes received a B+ or higher in all four categories. There are quite a few factors within this area. Most of the subcategories relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers, 9.08% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers, 2.82% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients who have had falls which caused severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be an indication of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers, 1.81% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with inadequate hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers, 10.64% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers, 21.27% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of long-term residents that are administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are commonly given to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers, 2.33% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term patients who are showing depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers, 94.94% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers, 13.07% Percentage of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers, 16.78% Percentage of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that maintained mobility.

Hospitalizations

In Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers, 1.76 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is critical to the physical well-being of nursing home residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers, 16.78 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers, 9.16 Percentage of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Commons at Orlando Lutheran Towers, 78.49% Percentage of Resident

This datapoint measures the percent of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements.

Scores for Orlando, FL

Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
Inspection Rating has a grade of A

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Nearby Dialysis

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Orlando Dialysis1.18 miles away116 Sturtevant St Orlando Florida 32806CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 23 (407) 426-9212
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Central Orlando Dialysis3.11 miles away2548 N Orange Blossom Trail #400 Orlando Florida 32804CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (407) 246-5081
West Orange Orlando Dialysis Center LLC3.6 miles away828 Mercy Drive Suite 2 Orlando Florida 32808Dialysis Stations: 16 (321) 710-0352
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