Pines of Sarasota
1501 N Orange Ave, Sarasota FL 34236 · (941) 365-0250 · 90.98% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Pines of Sarasota is one of 23 options in Sarasota, Florida. With an overall rating of A+, this facility is ranked among the top nursing homes we found. This nursing home even turned out to be one of the better facilities in Sarasota, which boasts as strong a group of nursing homes as any city in the country. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's stellar report card is its long-term care grade. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 204 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our long-term care category. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This facility's vaccination statistics weren't as favorable a few of the other statistics in this area, such as its nursing hours data. This nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 88.80368 percent of its patients. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. This place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.59 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category scores, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our nursing score assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Lastly, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average. This is generally a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.
Short-term Care Quality
In the final category we assessed, this nursing home was awarded an impressive grade grade of A in our short-term care category. With this score, the nursing home completed a straight A report card. In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is considered to be a useful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, we found that this nursing home provided respectable levels of physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This place outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 55.5 percent of its residents returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Pines of Sarasota Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure tells you the percent of long-term patients which are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for many medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term residents who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate deterioration of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better