East Bay Rehabilitation Center
4470 E Bay Dr, Clearwater FL 33764 · (727) 530-7100 · 92.75% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
East Bay Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home in Clearwater, Florida, which has 172,247 people. This nursing home received an overall grade of A-. In fact, this is ranked among the three highest graded nursing homes in the city. We simply can not say enough good things about this facility. If you look further down this page, you can see this place's category scores, which are also quite good.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, it also earned A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections are nearly flawless. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Short-term Care Quality
Compounding its high-end assessments in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A- for its short-term care grade. Short-term care grades are commonly used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a facility in this category. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 42.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was awarded a very impressive long-term care grade. Indeed, this is this facility's third best category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. On top of offering elite levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. The last statistic we assessed is the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 3.16 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this wasn't as strong as some of its other scores in this category, this figure may be skewed for some nursing homes based on some of the preexisting medical conditions of patients.
Nurse Quality
In the last area, we awarded this nursing home a A+ for our nursing grade. This finished off an elite report card. Our nursing score features many factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This place provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which is among the higher figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more skilled levels of nurses. We are really impressed by these figures. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its patients suffering falls leading to major injury, this facility performed as well as any facility Florida.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
East Bay Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a fall leading to serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents which had a UTI. UTI's could be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients 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 cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of long-term patients that were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many believe that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better