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Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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5355 Dolphin Point Blvd,
Jacksonville FL 32211

(937) 434-8820

92.73% estimated occupancy ¹

Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center is located in Jacksonville, Florida, which is among the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the nation. It looks like this nursing home is one of the top facilities we assessed. A grade of this caliber requires first-rate marks across the board. As a matter of fact, we ranked this nursing home as the eighth best facility in Jacksonville. Scroll down to see this facility's category scores, which are also quite good. It is hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
Has Family Council
For profit - Limited Liability company

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Facility Inspections

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned a very impressive grade in inspections. In fact, inspections ended up being its best category. In this category, we gave this nursing home an A. Inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category generally have very few severe deficiencies. It doesn't appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without having access to complete information regarding deficiencies, it was difficult to evaluate it in the inspections category.

Nurse Quality

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. Our nursing grade considers numerous factors. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Florida in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a resident at least once a day.

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Long-term Care Quality

This nursing home also was awarded a strong long-term care grade. This actually is this nursing home's third strongest category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are well cared for. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 92.567566 percent of its patients. This is a few points lower than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Short-term Care Quality

In the final category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care rating. This topped off a very impressive report card. In forming our short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center, 6.74% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center, 1.8% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center, 0.48% of Patients had UTIs

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

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center, 3.78% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center, 30.42% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center, 2.1% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who are showing depressive symptoms. Some would argue this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center, 96.02% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center, 7.51% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the deterioration of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center, 11.15% of Residents

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels. Some believe that mobility is vital to residents' physical and mental well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to the physical well-being of nursing home patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center, 11.15% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center, 7.13% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Dolphin Pointe Health Care Center, 89.55% of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of performance with activities of daily living typically correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.