Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
7173 Cypress Drive Sw,
Fort Myers FL 33907
98.66% estimated occupancy 1
Fort Myers Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is an average-sized facility located in Fort Myers, Florida. This is a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. This nursing home truly has plenty working in its favor. As you can see below, this place also performed well in our category grades. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.
To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for our nursing grade. The nursing grade includes many subcategories. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.5 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is much better than what is offered by most places. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category.
An additional strong feature for this facility is that it was given a favorable long-term care grade. Indeed, this turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to offering very impressive levels of nurse staffing, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.45946 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. While it had 3.16 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most facilities due to it having some more complex patients.
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This facility also received top notch government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
The final area we analyzed was short-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B. This nursing home proved to be strong across the board. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed 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 metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 36.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
In Fort Myers Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 9.04% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay residents who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
In Fort Myers Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 2.8% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a fall resulting in serious injury.
In Fort Myers Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 1.81% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with inadequate hygiene.
In Fort Myers Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
In Fort Myers Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 21.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
In Fort Myers Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 2.43% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
In Fort Myers Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 95.03% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient safety.
In Fort Myers Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 13.16% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of erosion of a patient's well-being.
In Fort Myers Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 18.15% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who maintained mobility. Many would argue that the ability to move around is important for patients mental and physical health.
In Fort Myers Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 1.59 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
In Fort Myers Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 18.15 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
In Fort Myers Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 9.19 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge short-term care.
In Fort Myers Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 77.65% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with activities of daily living typically correlates with superior rehabilitation.
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