Gandy Crossing Care Center is a large nursing home located in Tampa, Florida. With an overall rating of C, this is likely a middle of the pack facility. We wanted to point out that Tampa received a city grade of B, so you may want to consider some other options in the city as well. One of the highlights of this nursing home's profile is its strong nursing grade, which we will address in the next section.
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Gandy Crossing Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
It should also be noted that this nursing home's nursing score outpaced its overall grade. We awarded it a B+ for its nursing score. Nursing scores are mostly associated with the nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also received favorable government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. This is better than the facility's overall grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
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Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility a decent score in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. In computing our long-term care ratings, we analyze the personal care offered to a nursing home's patients. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 93.686356 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Short-term Care Quality
The final area we graded was short-term care, which is a weak link for this nursing home. We gave this facility a grade of D for our short-term care category. Our short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. As you might expect, we found that this place provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average nursing home. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Gandy Crossing Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 8.68% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is is a measure of the percent of long-term patients which suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 0.61% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls resulting in injury are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 0.22% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint can be skewed for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 3.81% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are used for a variety of conditions, such as dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 18.03% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term patients taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 3.28% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients who are showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 96.65% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 28.22% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 30.42% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical health of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 30.42% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 7.68% of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 69.05% of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Tampa, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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Nearby Dialysis
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