North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care is a facility located in Gainesville, Florida, a city with 197,025 people. This is a quality nursing home with a B overall. This was right in line with the city grade in Gainesville. Based on our assessment, this facility looks like a solid choice for most people. This nursing home was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of our major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
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North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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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
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Pharmacy
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Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A few minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to its profile, this facility also received a score of B for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 93.93939 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia can be a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. Nursing scores are mostly associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
The last area we assessed is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in that area. This is a decent grade in this category. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care, 9.04% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term residents which suffer from pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care, 1.14% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care. Better hygiene protocols limits the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care, 4.07% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care, 11.76% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care, 0% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care, 96.32% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care, 14.62% of Patients
This is the percent of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care, 14.17% of Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is key to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care, 14.17% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care, 15.97% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In North Florida Rehabilitation and Specialty Care, 82.14% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Scores for Gainesville, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Gainesville, Florida has 7 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- North Florida Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.17 miles away6500 Newberry Rd Gainesville Florida 32605Proprietary(352) 333-4100
- Uf Health Shands HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.46 miles away1600 Sw Archer Rd Gainesville Florida 32610Voluntary non-profit - Private(352) 265-8000
- Regional General Hospital WillistonAcute Care Hospitals 19.32 miles away125 Sw 7th St Williston Florida 32696Proprietary(352) 528-2801
Nearby Dialysis
- Gainesville Newberry Dialysis0.18 miles away1177 Nw 64th Terrace Gainesville Florida 32605Dialysis Stations: 18 (352) 332-0679
- Bma - Gainesville1.07 miles away1775 Nw 80th Blvd Gainesville Florida 32606CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (352) 332-8998
- Gainesville Home Dialysis1.07 miles away4960 W Newberry Rd #280 Gainesville Florida 32607Dialysis Stations: 3 (352) 378-4960
- Dci University of Florida Home Program2.06 miles away3750 Nw 83rd St Gainesville Florida 32606Dialysis Stations: 7 (352) 377-6790
- Dci University of Florida2.12 miles away3850 Nw 83rd Street Ste 101 Gainesville Florida 32606CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (352) 337-6021
- Shands at Univ of Fl Outpatient Dialysis3.77 miles away2409 Sw Archer Rd Gainesville Florida 32608Dialysis Stations: 26 (352) 265-6890
- Shands Hospital - Pediatric Dialysis4.42 miles away1600 Sw Archer Road Gainesville Florida 32610Dialysis Stations: 5 (352) 265-0265
- Bma - Gainesville East5.57 miles away1961 N. Main St Gainesville Florida 32609Dialysis Stations: 19 (352) 375-0223