Fort Pierce Health Care
611 S 13th St, Fort Pierce FL 34950 · (772) 464-5262 · 83.09% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Fort Pierce Health Care is a large nursing home located in Fort Pierce, Florida. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A grade in this range requires some solid marks. You can certainly do worse than this place. We were also pleased to discover that this nursing home was consistent in all of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about these categories is available below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 171 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the area of nursing. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. The nursing grade weighs numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is better than what is offered by most places. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients suffering falls leading to serious injury, this place performed as well as just about any place we looked at.
Short-term Care Quality
One of this facility's more respectable category scores came in the category of short-term care. This proved to be its second most respectable category. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This area is frequently a fair assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 16.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home's inspection grade appears to be one of its best features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home had 8 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We really didn't find anything on this facility's inspection report to be too concerning.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we rated was long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of C. In computing our long-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 97.302505 percent of its patients against pneumonia. The last datapoint we looked at is its hospitalization rate. Although it had 2.13 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was not too far off the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fort Pierce Health Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of decline of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better