Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a small nursing home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. With an overall rating of B-, this appears to be a respectable nursing home. While there isn't anything wrong with a B-, we wanted to point out that Fort Lauderdale received a city grade of B+ so there are plenty of good options in this city. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category is long-term care, which is discussed in the next section.
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Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home performed well in the area of long-term care. In fact, we gave it an A- for that area. This salvaged its overall profile. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Facility Inspections
We would also like to draw your attention to this facility's strong inspection grade. This nursing home earned a grade of B in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our inspection scores are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's inspections. Places that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Short-term Care Quality
The third category we analyzed is short-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of B- in this area. Our short-term care grade is typically used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. We weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below average.
Nurse Quality
The final category we graded is nursing, which turned out to be this nursing home's worst area. We gave this facility a D in that category. Naturally, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to a certain degree. Our nursing grade looks at the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really dragged down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 18.52% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are an barometer of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 0.7% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are often linked to poor nursing care. More supervision can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with worse hygiene protocols. Better hygiene protocols can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this metric is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 16.81% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term residents which are given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these drugs due to having more patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 29.41% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. High rates of depression could imply lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 99.42% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 15.6% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate decline of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 17.13% of Residents
This is the percentage of residents that maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 17.13% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Harbor Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 67.36% of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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Nearby Hospitals
- Broward Health Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.51 miles away1600 S Andrews Ave Fort Lauderdale Florida 33316Government - Hospital District or Authority(954) 355-4400
- Plantation General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.63 miles away401 Nw 42nd Ave Fort Lauderdale Florida 33317Voluntary non-profit - Private(954) 587-5010
- Holy Cross HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.88 miles away4725 N Federal Hwy Fort Lauderdale Florida 33308Voluntary non-profit - Church(954) 771-8000
- Memorial Hospital PembrokeAcute Care Hospitals 8.7 miles away7800 Sheridan St Hollywood Florida 33024Government - Hospital District or Authority(954) 962-9650
- Aventura Hospital and Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.09 miles away20900 Biscayne Blvd Miami Florida 33180Voluntary non-profit - Private(305) 682-7000
- South Florida State HospitalPsychiatric 10.18 miles away800 E Cypress Dr Hollywood Florida 33025Government - State(305) 967-7000
- University Hospital and Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.32 miles away7201 N University Dr Fort Lauderdale Florida 33321Proprietary(954) 721-2200
- Northwest Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 11.67 miles away2801 N State Rd 7 Pompano Beach Florida 33063Proprietary(954) 974-0400
Nearby Dialysis
- East Ft Lauderdale Dialysis Center LLC0.54 miles away1301 S Andrews Ave Suite 101 Fort Lauderdale Florida 33315CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (954) 761-1273
- Fmc Dialysis Services - Ft Lauderdale2.79 miles away3863 W Broward Blvd Fort Lauderdale Florida 33312CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (954) 321-7772
- Broward Dialysis3.25 miles away1500 N Federal Hwy #100 Fort Lauderdale Florida 33304Dialysis Stations: 21 (954) 396-8990
- Kidney Kare Outpatient Services3.52 miles away326 E Dania Beach Blvd Dania Florida 33004Dialysis Stations: 3 (954) 923-3855
- Advanced Dialysis Center of Ft Lauderdale4.47 miles away911 E Oakland Park Blvd Fort Lauderdale Florida 33334CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (954) 318-7000
- Fresenius Kidney Care-East Fort Lauderdale4.97 miles away2301 W Oakland Park Blvd Fort Lauderdale Florida 33311Dialysis Stations: 16 (954) 676-3897
- Lauderhill Dialysis5.95 miles away2916 N State Road 7 Fort Lauderdale Florida 33313CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (954) 731-6044
- South Florida Dialysis6.01 miles away1 Oakwood Blvd #100 Hollywood Florida 33020CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (954) 894-7500