LaurellWood Care Center is a small facility located in Saint Petersburg, Florida. This facility is ranked among the highest-rated facilities we assessed. This nursing home received one of the best scores we offer. Based on our ratings, you can not go wrong here. This nursing home also received phenomenal ratings in all of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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LaurellWood Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- 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
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing rating. When determining a facility's nursing score, we weigh the amount of time nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient even once per day.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. Our inspection grades are based on several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility also was strong in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Very few facilities performed better in this area. Short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
In the last area, this facility also was given an excellent long-term care grade, with a grade of B+. This completed a very strong profile. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.445595 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
LaurellWood Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In LaurellWood Care Center, 3.65% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In LaurellWood Care Center, 2.07% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Falls resulting in injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In LaurellWood Care Center, 1.07% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often the result of facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Better nursing care can limit the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In LaurellWood Care Center, 3.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In LaurellWood Care Center, 59.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In LaurellWood Care Center, 4.52% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry would argue this is a reliable measure of resident quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In LaurellWood Care Center, 98.74% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In LaurellWood Care Center, 4.32% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In LaurellWood Care Center, 6.69% of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In LaurellWood Care Center, 6.69% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In LaurellWood Care Center, 67.2% of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's generally correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Scores for Saint Petersburg, 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-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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