AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South is a very-large non-profit nursing home located in Apopka, Florida. It looks like this nursing home is among the better facilities we assessed. A score of this caliber requires very strong marks across the board. As a matter of fact, this proved to be the highest graded nursing home in the city. This place also received consistently good ratings in all of the major categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.
AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Lymphedema Care
- Aquatic Therapy
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
On top of performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home received an excellent short-term care score. We gave it an A in that area. Short-term care grades are generally employed to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
On the list of its many elite scores, this nursing home was awarded a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 95.740364 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor dings aren't something to panic about.
Nurse Quality
In the last category we looked at, this facility was given a very strong grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home wrapped up a very favorable profile. Our nursing grade is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving residents more frequently.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South, 9.08% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South, 2.82% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a fall leading to major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South, 1.81% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic measures the percent of long-term residents who suffered from urinary tract infections. UTI's may be a sign of a facility with worst hygiene practices. However, this datapoint may also be skewed for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South, 10.64% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South, 21.27% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South, 2.33% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who are showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South, 94.94% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South, 13.07% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South, 16.78% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percent of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South, 1.76 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 maintaining the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South, 16.78 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South, 9.16 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In AdventHealth Care Center Apopka South, 78.49% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Adventhealth OrlandoAcute Care Hospitals 7.94 miles away601 E Rollins St Orlando Florida 32803Voluntary non-profit - Private(407) 303-1976
- Health CentralAcute Care Hospitals 9.59 miles away10000 W Colonial Dr Ocoee Florida 34761Government - State(407) 296-1820
- Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.52 miles away52 W Underwood St Orlando Florida 32806Voluntary non-profit - Private(321) 843-8000
- Oviedo Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 13.31 miles away8300 Red Bug Lake Rd Oviedo Florida 32765Proprietary(407) 890-2100
- Central Florida Regional HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.39 miles away1401 W Seminole Blvd Sanford Florida 32771Proprietary(407) 321-4500
- Adventhealth Fish MemorialAcute Care Hospitals 19.64 miles away1055 Saxon Blvd Orange City Florida 32763Voluntary non-profit - Church(386) 917-5000
Nearby Dialysis
- Apopka Dialysis0.07 miles away640 Executive Park Court Apopka Florida 32703CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (407) 389-8980
- West Orange Maitland Dialysis Center LLC3.24 miles away7960 Forrest City Rd Suite 105 Orlando Florida 32810Dialysis Stations: 16 (407) 297-8408
- Bma - North Orlando4.48 miles away750 S North Lake Blvd Ste 1024 Altamonte Springs Florida 32701Dialysis Stations: 12 (407) 831-7070
- Central Florida Kidney Center - Longwood4.81 miles away745 W Sr 434 Ste A Longwood Florida 32750Dialysis Stations: 15 (407) 332-4448
- Davita Clarcona Dialysis5.04 miles away8259 Clarcona Ocoee Rd Orlando Florida 32818Dialysis Stations: 16 (407) 299-2173
- Apopka Artificial Kidney Center5.26 miles away1065 W Orange Blossom Trl Apopka Florida 32712Dialysis Stations: 16 (407) 880-2121
- Orlando North Dialysis5.69 miles away5135 Adanson St Ste 700 Orlando Florida 32804Dialysis Stations: 16 (407) 539-3998
- Casselberry Dialysis6.48 miles away4970 South Us Hwy 17-92 Casselberry Florida 32707Dialysis Stations: 20 (321) 207-7135