Life Care Center of New Port Richey is an average-sized facility in New Port Richey, Florida. This facility was awarded an overall grade of B, which is favorable grade. Based on all of the relevant data, you could do much worse than this nursing home. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which is addressed in the next section.
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Life Care Center of New Port Richey
- 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
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. Inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to its profile, this facility also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.06 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
Additionally, this facility also received favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Nurse Quality
The final category we graded is nursing. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Our nursing score is primarily tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. While this nursing home didn't have as many nursing hours as many of the other facilities we looked at, it was still better than average in the area of preventing major falls.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Life Care Center of New Port Richey Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Life Care Center of New Port Richey, 20.61% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure measures the percentage of long-term patients who suffer from pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a reliable measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Life Care Center of New Port Richey, 2.81% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are routinely associated with poor nursing care. More supervision can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Life Care Center of New Port Richey, 0.99% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who have had urinary tract infections. UTI's may be a sign of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic may also be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Life Care Center of New Port Richey, 3.16% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term residents who are given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Life Care Center of New Port Richey, 27.35% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Life Care Center of New Port Richey, 0.38% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents showing symptoms of depression. Increased levels of depression could imply a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Life Care Center of New Port Richey, 99.43% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Life Care Center of New Port Richey, 5.26% of Patients
This is the percent of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Life Care Center of New Port Richey, 14.13% of Residents
This is the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Life Care Center of New Port Richey, 0.06 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Life Care Center of New Port Richey, 14.13% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Life Care Center of New Port Richey, 12.03% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Life Care Center of New Port Richey, 81.24% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts believe this is a measure of rehabilitation performance.
Scores for New Port Richey, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- 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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Nearby Dialysis
- Davita Trinity Dialysis2.13 miles away2870 Bund Ave New Port Richey Florida 34655Dialysis Stations: 20 (727) 372-7742
- Physicians Dialysis Trinity2.43 miles away9332 State Road 54 Suite 306 New Port Richey Florida 34655Dialysis Stations: 13 (727) 848-0106
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