Emerald Coast Center is in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. The city has a total of 51,828 people. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of C. A score in this range requires some solid scores. This place seems to have a few things working in its favor. The best part of this nursing home's report card is is its inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.
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Emerald Coast Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home earned an inspection grade which is stronger than its overall score. Inspection ratings are tied to the nursing home's recent health inspections. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite insignificant. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we also would like to note that this facility was given positive long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that category, with a grade of B. This turned out to be the nursing home's second highest grade. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 99.433426 percent of its patients, which is better than the average nursing home. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Nurse Quality
Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. Our nursing score is mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the last area, we gave this facility a D for our short-term care category. This is the facility's weakest category rating. Our short-term care scores are presumably most critical for residents in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last item we assessed in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.9 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Emerald Coast Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Emerald Coast Center, 10.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a great barometer of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Emerald Coast Center, 3.4% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients that have had a fall resulting in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Emerald Coast Center, 0.3% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term care residents which had urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indication of a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this metric may also be skewed for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Emerald Coast Center, 10.21% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Emerald Coast Center, 32.82% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Emerald Coast Center, 8.92% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Emerald Coast Center, 92.54% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Emerald Coast Center, 3.58% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Emerald Coast Center, 3.16% of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents that retained mobility levels. Some argue that the ability to move around is vital to patients well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Emerald Coast Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is important to preserving the physical health of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Emerald Coast Center, 3.16% 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 Emerald Coast Center, 12.41% of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Emerald Coast Center, 88.25% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some argue this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Fort Walton Beach Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.5 miles away1000 Mar-Walt Dr Fort Walton Beach Florida 32547Proprietary(850) 862-1111
- Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald CoastAcute Care Hospitals 18.01 miles away7800 Us Hwy 98 W Miramar Beach Florida 32550Voluntary non-profit - Other(850) 278-3600
Nearby Dialysis
- Rcg - Ft Walton Beach3.52 miles away925 Mar Walt Dr Ste 2 Fort Walton Beach Florida 32547CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 38 (850) 864-4411
- Emerald Coast Dialysis3.68 miles away1112 Hospital Rd Fort Walton Beach Florida 32547Dialysis Stations: 16 (850) 864-4850
- Fresenius Kidney Care-East Fort Walton Beach3.9 miles away315 Green Acres Road Fort Walton Beach Florida 32547Dialysis Stations: 16 (850) 314-0035
- Fmc - Niceville10.62 miles away4304 Lancaster Dr Niceville Florida 32578Dialysis Stations: 17 (850) 729-4141
- Renal Care Group - Navarre14.73 miles away8888 Navarre Pkwy Navarre Florida 32566Dialysis Stations: 16 (850) 515-0810
- Renal Care Group - Destin18.09 miles away7720 Us Hwy 98 W Suite 150 Miramar Beach Florida 32550Dialysis Stations: 12 (850) 622-9717