Gandy Crossing Care Center is a large nursing home located in Tampa, Florida. With an overall rating of D, this is a subpar facility. We found this to be one of the bottom five rated nursing homes in Tampa. With countless other nursing homes in the city, you may simply want to look elsewhere. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is inspections, which is addressed in the next section.
Gandy Crossing Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- 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
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it received a somewhat respectable grade in the area of inspections. We awarded it a B- for this area, which is not bad. Our inspection grades are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's next highest area was its long-term care grade, where it received a grade of C. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.68421 percent of its patients. This nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. The nursing score includes a variety of factors. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home actually excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to our fourth area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D for the area of short-term care. This was the facility's worst category rating. In forming these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
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, 9.08% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 2.82% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 1.81% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. However, this datapoint may be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 10.64% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents who were given antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. However, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of patients with cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 21.27% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 2.33% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who are demonstrating signs of depression. Many in the industry believe this is a measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 94.94% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 13.07% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and continence. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 16.78% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that maintained mobility. Many argue that mobility is critical to patients physical and mental health.
Hospitalizations
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 1.76 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 16.78 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 9.16 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Gandy Crossing Care Center, 78.49% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements.
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 A-minus
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