Palm Garden of Orlando is a large nursing home located in Orlando, Florida. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B+, which is a quality score. In fact, this is one of the ten best facilities in Orlando. Even in a city offering 20 nursing homes, this nursing home is a great option. Keep reading to find this facility's category scores, which are also impressive. It is hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.
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Palm Garden of Orlando
- 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 - Individual
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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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. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of B+. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this category. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.026764 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably 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. There are a variety of datapoints included in this grade. Many of these factors reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Florida in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning residents more frequently.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we graded is short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home an above average grade of B. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is considered to be a fair measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Palm Garden of Orlando Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Palm Garden of Orlando, 7.26% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term care patients that are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a solid indicator of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Palm Garden of Orlando, 2.19% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay residents who suffered a fall which resulted in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Palm Garden of Orlando, 1.27% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint could be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Palm Garden of Orlando, 8.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Palm Garden of Orlando, 23.2% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Palm Garden of Orlando, 0% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients exhibiting signs of depression. Many in the industry would argue that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Palm Garden of Orlando, 98.6% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Palm Garden of Orlando, 16.07% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of decline of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Palm Garden of Orlando, 18.45% of Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Palm Garden of Orlando, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is critical to maintaining the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Palm Garden of Orlando, 18.45% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Palm Garden of Orlando, 7.52% of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Palm Garden of Orlando, 84.37% of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Scores for Orlando, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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