Port St Lucie Rehabilitation and Healthcare
7300 Oleander Ave, Port Saint Lucie FL 34952 · (561) 466-4100 · 75.77% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Port St Lucie Rehabilitation and Healthcare is a large nursing home in Port Saint Lucie, Florida. Featuring an overall score of A-, this facility is one of the better facilities in Port Saint Lucie, which features plenty of very good nursing homes. We really couldn't find many bad things to say about this facility. Its ratings are as good as they get. The best part of this facility's impressive report card was its short-term care rating. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 180 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
To pair with its strong overall score, we gave this nursing home an A for short-term care. Short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. It outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 59.7 percent of its patients returning home.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that area with an A. Inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. The nursing category is based on quite a few components, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This place provided 4.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is among the higher totals in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We are really impressed by these statistics. In addition to providing high levels of care, this nursing home also performed well in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering falls leading to major injury, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is often a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we looked at is long-term care. This facility was awarded an above average long-term care rating this year, with a grade of B-. Even though this was not as impressive as many of its other grades, this remains a decent grade in that category. Our long-term care scores are more important for folks in need of more conventional services associated with activities of daily living. In addition to assessing the very solid quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were happy with the facility's vaccination record. By way of example, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.75 percent of its patients, which is an impressive total. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.68 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Port St Lucie Rehabilitation and Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have experienced a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who had a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of residents showing signs of depression. High levels of depression could reveal a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and eating. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who maintained mobility. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is important for residents' physical and mental health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better