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Oakbridge Healthcare Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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3110 Oakbridge Blvd E,
Lakeland FL 33803

(863) 648-4800

76.66% estimated occupancy ¹

Oakbridge Healthcare Center is one of 12 facilities in Lakeland, Florida. We awarded this facility an overall score of B, which is an above average rating. In fact, it proved to be ranked among the five highest graded nursing homes in the city. As far as we can see, this place looks like a good fit for most people. If you look further down this page, you can see this nursing home's category scores, which are also strong.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Individual

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Nurse Quality

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home earned even higher grades in the area of nursing. In fact, we gave it one of our best grades in that category with an A. The nursing grade weighs a variety of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

In addition, this facility also was awarded favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we gave them one of our stronger grades in that category, with a grade of B. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

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Facility Inspections

This facility received a very good inspection report this year as well. It earned one of our higher grades in that category with a B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. We weren't able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without all of the information regarding deficiencies, it ended up being a challenge to fully assess this nursing home in this category.

Long-term Care Quality

Turning to the final category, this nursing home received a strong long-term care grade. This facility did not turn out to have any real weak links. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.02913 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Oakbridge Healthcare Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Oakbridge Healthcare Center, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term residents who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are an indicator of a facility's nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Oakbridge Healthcare Center, 0.97% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a fall which resulted in major injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Oakbridge Healthcare Center, 3.74% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic may also be skewed for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Oakbridge Healthcare Center, 16.84% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents that were administered antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely on these medications due to having more patients suffering from dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Oakbridge Healthcare Center, 25.99% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are given to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Oakbridge Healthcare Center, 0.52% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Oakbridge Healthcare Center, 98.3% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Oakbridge Healthcare Center, 14.88% of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and continence. Some argue this is a measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Oakbridge Healthcare Center, 9.18% of Residents

This tells you the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Oakbridge Healthcare Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Oakbridge Healthcare Center, 9.18% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Oakbridge Healthcare Center, 14.44% of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Oakbridge Healthcare Center, 76.2% of Resident

This datapoint measures the percent of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some believe this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.