Life Care Center of Orange Park
2145 Kingsley Ave, Orange Park FL 32073 · (904) 272-2424 · 93.77% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Life Care Center of Orange Park is a facility located in Orange Park, Florida. This city has a total of 71,690 people. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is one of the highest scores we offer. A grade of this caliber requires superb scores across the board. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top quarter of all facilities in the country. This place also received very consistent scores in all of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades is available below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 180 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection grades are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility 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 CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings are not something to panic about.
Short-term Care Quality
On the list of its many impressive grades, this nursing home was given a strong short-term care grade. In fact, it received a score of A in that area. Our short-term care grade is typically used to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. One of this facility's strengths is the number of hours of physical therapy offered. We found that it provides at least 1.5 times as many hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in the country in this area with 55.8 percent of its residents able to return home. This is a better rate than most facilities.
Nurse Quality
Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. When calculating a facility's nursing grade, we assess the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This place offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.1 hours per patient each day. This is more nursing care than nearly any other nursing home provides. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients sustaining falls which lead to major injury, this nursing home performed better than the national average.
Long-term Care Quality
In our final category, we awarded this facility a A+ for its long-term care rating. This finished off a very favorable report card. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to providing very favorable levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This percentage is also much better than the average nursing home. The last datapoint we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 2.3 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Life Care Center of Orange Park Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This measures the percent of long-term residents that have new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term care residents who suffered falls which caused serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this datapoint may be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term residents who are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percent of long-term care patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who remained mobile levels. Some argue that the ability to move around is important for patients mental and physical health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with activities of daily living often correlates with better rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better