Pruitthealth - Panama City is located in Panama City, Florida. This city has a population of 118,090 people. This facility received an overall rating of A-. As a matter of fact, this is ranked among the top three nursing homes in the city. Based on our ratings, this facility is just about as as good as it gets. Keep reading to see this facility's category grades, which are also strong. It's hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.
Pruitthealth - Panama City
Updated May 1, 2022 by Sara Levinsohn
3212 Jenks Avenue,
Panama City FL 32405
90.64% estimated occupancy 1
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Facility Inspections
On top of being a great nursing home overall, it also received A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections were nearly perfect. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It doesn't look like we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We would like to have more information about this nursing home. Without having access to information regarding deficiencies, it ended up being a challenge to really grade the place in this area.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also was superb in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of A. Few facilities received a better grade in this category. In forming our short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Florida in this area with 67 percent of its residents returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our next area, this nursing home also earned a grade of B for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this area. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination records is first-rate also. Indeed, this facility vaccinated 99.42857 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 2.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most facilities due to it having some more complicated patients.
Nurse Quality
The next area we looked at is nursing, where this facility was given a B. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's worst category. A facility could be doing a lot worse when their worst grade still is better than most other nursing homes. We weighed the licensure of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses worked with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This place provides an extremely impressive 5.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is among the higher totals in the nation. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls leading to serious injury, this facility performed better than the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Pruitthealth - Panama City Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Pruitthealth - Panama City, 9.04% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Pruitthealth - Panama City, 2.8% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injuries are often caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing care can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Pruitthealth - Panama City, 1.81% of Patients had UTIs
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term patients which have suffered from a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric may also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Pruitthealth - Panama City, 11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Tragically, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Pruitthealth - Panama City, 21.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Pruitthealth - Panama City, 2.43% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some would argue this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Pruitthealth - Panama City, 95.03% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Pruitthealth - Panama City, 13.16% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and bathing. Some would argue that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Pruitthealth - Panama City, 18.15% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of residents who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Pruitthealth - Panama City, 1.59 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Pruitthealth - Panama City, 18.15 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Pruitthealth - Panama City, 9.19 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Pruitthealth - Panama City, 77.65% Percentage of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's typically correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Scores for Panama City, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- 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-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-plus
Looking for more options? Panama City, Florida has 4 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Gulf Coast Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.17 miles away449 W 23rd St Panama City Florida 32405Proprietary(850) 769-8341
- Ascension Sacred Heart BayAcute Care Hospitals 3.31 miles away615 N Bonita Ave Panama City Florida 32401Government - Hospital District or Authority(850) 769-1511
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Panama City1.36 miles away2100 Harrison Ave Panama City Florida 32405Dialysis Stations: 29 (850) 522-5407
- Lynn Haven Dialysis1.49 miles away404 E 24th Street Lynn Haven Florida 32444Dialysis Stations: 12 (850) 271-2937
- Panama City Dialysis Center1.79 miles away615 Hwy 231 Panama City Florida 32405Dialysis Stations: 37 (850) 785-1233
- Coastal Kidney Center2.7 miles away510 N Mcarthur Ave Panama City Florida 32401CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 28 (850) 914-0824
- West Beach Dialysis Center14.82 miles away16201 Suite 102 Panama City Beach Pkwy Panama City Beach Florida 32413Dialysis Stations: 8 (850) 233-0837