East Bay Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized facility located in Clearwater, Florida. This is an A rated facility, which is one of the best grades that we offer. This facility turned out to be one of the better facilities in Clearwater, which boasts a good selection of nursing homes. As you can find below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category grades. It is hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.
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East Bay Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Lymphedema Care
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Facility Inspections
In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes fared this well in this category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its 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.
Long-term Care Quality
Among its many high-end grades, this nursing home received first-rate long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are well cared for. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning our next area, this nursing home was given a strong short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that area. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 4.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
In our final area, this nursing home also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of B+. This topped off a very strong profile. We weighed the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses worked with patients, in determining our score in this area. This nursing home provides 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 better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
East Bay Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In East Bay Rehabilitation Center, 11.31% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In East Bay Rehabilitation Center, 2.74% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In East Bay Rehabilitation Center, 4.97% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who experienced a UTI. UTI's may be a sign of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric may also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In East Bay Rehabilitation Center, 10.16% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In East Bay Rehabilitation Center, 30.61% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that are prescribed antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In East Bay Rehabilitation Center, 0.32% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In East Bay Rehabilitation Center, 100% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In East Bay Rehabilitation Center, 12.23% of Patients
This is the percent of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In East Bay Rehabilitation Center, 6.13% of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In East Bay Rehabilitation Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In East Bay Rehabilitation Center, 6.13% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In East Bay Rehabilitation Center, 9.67% of Patients
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In East Bay Rehabilitation Center, 94.49% of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Scores for Clearwater, 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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