Life Care Center of Sarasota is an average-sized nursing home located in Sarasota, Florida. This nursing home received an A- overall, which is one of the most impressive ratings we offer. A grade of this caliber requires superb scores across the board. This grade is better than the city grade of B+ in Sarasota, which is also an impressive grade. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its short-term care grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
Life Care Center of Sarasota
Updated May 1, 2022 by Sara Levinsohn
8104 Tuttle Ave,
Sarasota FL 34243
82% estimated occupancy 1
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Short-term Care Quality
We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Short-term care grades are typically employed to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Florida in this area with 66 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. The nursing rating weighs many datapoints, but the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This place boasts a really impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any facility. On top of offering impressive levels of care, this facility was also above average in several of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally good measures of the quality of nursing care a nursing home offers.
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Facility Inspections
This facility also performed well in the area of inspections. It received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. It received one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of B+. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category generally have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we graded was this nursing home's weakest area. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a decent grade of B- in long-term care. In our long-term care category, we focus on the quantity of care provided by a facility, as well as some quality measures. After assessing the very respectable amount of nursing hours provided by this facility, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.590164 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which appears to be higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 1.94 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most nursing homes since it had more complicated patients.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Life Care Center of Sarasota Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Life Care Center of Sarasota, 9.04% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care residents which are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Life Care Center of Sarasota, 2.8% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Life Care Center of Sarasota, 1.81% of Patients had UTIs
This figure measures the percent of long-term patients who experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indication of lower quality nursing care. However, this statistic could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Life Care Center of Sarasota, 11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Life Care Center of Sarasota, 21.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Life Care Center of Sarasota, 2.43% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some experts argue that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Life Care Center of Sarasota, 95.03% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Life Care Center of Sarasota, 13.16% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Life Care Center of Sarasota, 18.15% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Life Care Center of Sarasota, 1.59 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Life Care Center of Sarasota, 18.15 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Life Care Center of Sarasota, 9.19 Percentage of Patients
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Life Care Center of Sarasota, 77.65% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Sarasota, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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