Consulate Health Care of Melbourne is a large nursing home in Melbourne, Florida. Sporting an overall grade of B+, this nursing home should work for most prospective residents. Indeed, we ranked this facility as the fifth best nursing home in Melbourne. This place was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of our major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Consulate Health Care of Melbourne
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Pain Management
- Bariatric Care
- Optometry
- Audiology
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home earned a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its excellent long-term care rating. We gave them an A in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't take any chances. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Facility Inspections
We also want to emphasize this nursing home's nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Nurse Quality
Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. When calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
The final area we scored proved to be this facility's weakest area. Nevertheless, even in its weakest link we still awarded it an acceptable grade of C in our short-term care category. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. We were not able to locate information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Consulate Health Care of Melbourne Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Consulate Health Care of Melbourne, 5.86% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Consulate Health Care of Melbourne, 1.89% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a fall which caused serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Consulate Health Care of Melbourne, 0.42% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely the result of facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Closer supervision limits the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Consulate Health Care of Melbourne, 3.17% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Consulate Health Care of Melbourne, 20.09% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term care residents which were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally used to treat residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Consulate Health Care of Melbourne, 2.49% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Consulate Health Care of Melbourne, 99.82% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Consulate Health Care of Melbourne, 19.46% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Consulate Health Care of Melbourne, 26.09% of Residents
This metric tracks the percent of long-term care patients that were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Consulate Health Care of Melbourne, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Consulate Health Care of Melbourne, 26.09% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the health of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Consulate Health Care of Melbourne, 12.17% of Patients
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Consulate Health Care of Melbourne, 79.77% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Melbourne, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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Nearby Hospitals
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- Holmes Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.32 miles away1350 S Hickory St Melbourne Florida 32901Voluntary non-profit - Private(321) 434-7000
- Viera HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.07 miles away8745 N Wickham Rd Melbourne Florida 32940Voluntary non-profit - Private(321) 434-9000
- Palm Bay HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.14 miles away1425 Malabar Rd, Ne Palm Bay Florida 32907Proprietary(321) 434-8000
- Steward Rockledge HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.84 miles away110 Longwood Ave Rockledge Florida 32955Proprietary(321) 637-2603
- Cape Canaveral HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 16.67 miles away701 W Cocoa Beach Causeway Cocoa Beach Florida 32932Voluntary non-profit - Private(321) 799-7111
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Brevard Home Therapies1.17 miles away2200 W Eau Gallie Blvd #202a Melbourne Florida 32935Dialysis Stations: 4 (321) 259-1181
- Melbourne Kidney Center4.1 miles away1400 S Apollo Blvd Melbourne Florida 32901CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 28 (321) 724-0461
- Melbourne Dialysis4.4 miles away2235 South Babcock St Melbourne Florida 32901Dialysis Stations: 16 (321) 956-6252
- Renal Care Group - Brevard7 miles away1355 Palm Bay Rd Palm Bay Florida 32905Dialysis Stations: 20 (321) 768-9801
- Dsi - Viera Dialysis8.08 miles away8041 Spyglass Hill Rd Suite 101 Melbourne Florida 32940Dialysis Stations: 18 (321) 254-4553
- Fmc - Palm Bay8.49 miles away450 Malabar Rd Se #101 Palm Bay Florida 32907Dialysis Stations: 17 (321) 409-0874
- North Melbourne Dialysis Inc8.62 miles away14 Suntree Place Suite 102 Melbourne Florida 32940Dialysis Stations: 10 (321) 253-9033
- Palm Bay Kidney Center8.97 miles away220 Medplex Pkwy Ne Palm Bay Florida 32907CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (321) 722-2709