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Pruitthealth - Southwood

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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2301 Bluff Oak Way,
Tallahassee FL 32311

(678) 533-5770

93.86% estimated occupancy ¹

Pruitthealth - Southwood is one of eight available nursing homes located in Tallahassee, Florida. This nursing home is an A rated facility, which is one of the most impressive scores that we offer. In fact, this is better than most of the nursing homes in Tallahassee, which has a decent selection of facilities. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's remarkable report card is its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation

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Facility Inspections

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. We would like to have more information about this facility. Without the information regarding deficiencies, it was a challenge to really evaluate this facility in this category.

Nurse Quality

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing rating is largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

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Short-term Care Quality

This facility also fared very well in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Not many nursing homes fared better in this category. In forming these short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

The last category we scored is long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's worst area. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.61686 percent of its patients, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Pruitthealth - Southwood Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Pruitthealth - Southwood, 7.84% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Pruitthealth - Southwood, 2.3% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients which had falls leading to major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Pruitthealth - Southwood, 0.43% of Patients had UTIs

This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term residents that had a urinary tract infection. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is difficult to compare different facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Pruitthealth - Southwood, 8.87% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Pruitthealth - Southwood, 10.8% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Pruitthealth - Southwood, 2.48% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Pruitthealth - Southwood, 98.33% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Pruitthealth - Southwood, 16.95% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Pruitthealth - Southwood, 22.6% of Residents

This tells you the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Pruitthealth - Southwood, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Pruitthealth - Southwood, 22.6% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Pruitthealth - Southwood, 20.02% of Patients

This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.