Palm Garden of Winter Haven is a senior living facility located in Winter Haven, Florida, which has 95,906 people. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B+. A score of this caliber requires strong scores in most areas. This should be on your short list in Winter Haven as we rated it as one of the top three nursing homes in the city. This nursing home is stronger 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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Palm Garden of Winter Haven
- 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 - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Pharmacy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Facility Inspections
One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it earned a very impressive inspection grade. Inspections is its best category. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home truly excelled in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Very few nursing homes performed more favorably in this area. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 98.46154 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
The third category we analyzed was short-term care. This nursing home received a very positive short-term care score, with a B in the area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is generally a meaningful measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our fourth area, this nursing home was given a respectable nursing grade. Even though this wasn't quite as impressive as a few of its other scores, this is really not a major area of concern. Nursing grades are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is far below average. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. While this nursing home didn't have as many nursing hours per resident as many other facilities we looked at, it was still better than average in the area of avoiding falls. This is typically a good indicator of how carefully a facility's nursing staff is tending to its patients. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Palm Garden of Winter Haven Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Palm Garden of Winter Haven, 8.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Palm Garden of Winter Haven, 3.08% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls leading to injury are routinely caused by poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Palm Garden of Winter Haven, 1.59% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of worse hygiene protocols. Additional nurse staffing minimizes the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Keep in mind that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Palm Garden of Winter Haven, 7.91% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for several medical conditions, including cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Palm Garden of Winter Haven, 13.15% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents given antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically given to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Palm Garden of Winter Haven, 8% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. Some experts argue this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Palm Garden of Winter Haven, 97.83% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Palm Garden of Winter Haven, 11.15% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Palm Garden of Winter Haven, 17.25% of Residents
This metric tracks the percent of long-term care patients that retained mobility levels. Many argue that mobility is vital to patients health.
Hospitalizations
In Palm Garden of Winter Haven, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Palm Garden of Winter Haven, 17.25% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Palm Garden of Winter Haven, 6.56% of Patients
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Palm Garden of Winter Haven, 76.89% of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Winter Haven, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Winter Haven, Florida has 6 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Winter Haven HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.89 miles away200 Ave F Ne Winter Haven Florida 33881Voluntary non-profit - Private(863) 293-1121
- Bartow Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.4 miles away2200 Osprey Blvd Bartow Florida 33831Proprietary(863) 533-8111
- Adventhealth Lake WalesAcute Care Hospitals 11.36 miles away410 S 11th St Lake Wales Florida 33853Proprietary(863) 676-1433
- Adventhealth Heart of FloridaAcute Care Hospitals 12.98 miles away40100 Hwy 27 Davenport Florida 33837Proprietary(863) 422-4971
- Lakeland Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 15.3 miles away1324 Lakeland Hills Blvd Lakeland Florida 33805Voluntary non-profit - Private(863) 687-1100
- Poinciana Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 17.65 miles away325 Cypress Pkwy Kissimmee Florida 34758Proprietary(407) 530-2000
Nearby Dialysis
- Rai Care Centers - Winter Haven1.86 miles away1200 E Lake Silver Dr Winter Haven Florida 33881CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (863) 299-0007
- Winter Haven South Dialysis3.67 miles away7220 Cypress Gardens Blvd Winter Haven Florida 33884CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (863) 324-5040
- Winter Haven Dialysis3.88 miles away1625 Unity Way Nw Winter Haven Florida 33881CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (863) 294-8851
- Fmc-Auburndale6.3 miles away365 Havendale Blvd Auburndale Florida 33823Dialysis Stations: 16 (863) 551-3159
- Rai Care Centers - Haines City10.68 miles away110 Patterson Rd Haines City Florida 33844CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (863) 422-0800
- Bartow Dialysis11.14 miles away1190 E Church St Bartow Florida 33830Dialysis Stations: 16 (863) 533-1601
- Lake Wales Dialysis11.46 miles away1125 Bryn Mawr Ave Lake Wales Florida 33853Dialysis Stations: 12 (863) 679-9851
- Rai Care Centers - Lake Wales11.7 miles away1348 State Road 60 E Lake Wales Florida 33853Dialysis Stations: 15 (863) 676-9510