Healthpark Care Center
16131 Roserush Court, Fort Myers FL 33908 · (239) 433-7344 · 91.69% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Healthpark Care Center is located in Fort Myers, Florida, a city with a total of 224,256 people. This facility is among the highest-graded facilities we found. In fact, it received our absolute highest grade. This nursing home even turned out to be one of the better facilities in Fort Myers, which boasts as strong a group of nursing homes as any city in the state. Headlining this facility's exemplary profile is its short-term care rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 112 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall score, this nursing home received an A+ in our short-term care category. Our short-term care scores are believed to be most critical for people needing a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This facility is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. It offered about 1.5 times as many physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. This is what we like to find when assessing a facility in this category. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Florida in this area with 68 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing rating consists of quite a few components, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This place provides an incredible 5.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Very few nursing homes provide this quantity of nursing care to their patients. Out of that total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering falls leading to major injury, this nursing home performed as well as any facility the country. Avoiding major falls is generally a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Facility Inspections
Continuing with its amazing performance, this nursing home also earned an A+ inspection score. This is based on its recent government inspection reports. Inspection grades are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
In our last category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for our long-term care grade. This completed a very strong report card. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. One of the statistics we considered in addition to this nursing home's quality nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.77301 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly. This combination proved to be effective as this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Healthpark Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients which have had a fall resulting in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for many conditions, including cognitive disorders. Tragically, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Some experts argue that this is a measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these vaccines vital to patient safety.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the erosion of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the health of patients.
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 patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better