Sarasota Memorial Nursing and Rehabilitation Cente
5640 Rand Blvd, Sarasota FL 34238 · (941) 917-4950 · 88.33% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Sarasota Memorial Nursing and Rehabilitation Cente is an average-sized government-owned nursing home in Sarasota, Florida. This proved to be an A+ rated facility. Receiving an A+ in our rating system takes excellent scores across the board. Despite Sarasota offering 23 other nursing homes available, this facility stood out as a first-rate option. This nursing home was also given strong grades in each of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
CCRC :
Government - Hospital district
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a great facility overall, it also earned A+ inspections in recent years. Its inspections are virtually perfect. Inspection scores 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. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
To complement its top-shelf assessments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its long-term care grade. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are well cared for. On top of providing very impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 99.572655 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.95 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
We also want to point out the fact that this facility was awarded a first-rate score of A in our short-term care category. In computing 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 skilled professionals. The purpose is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found it offers at least 1.5 times as many hours with physical therapists than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in this area with 62.2 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to our next category, this facility also performed well in the nursing category. We awarded it an A in this area. This topped off truly elite profile. We scrutinized the levels of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses were with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This place offers an impressive 4.9 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is among the highest figures in the country. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any facility Florida when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these areas as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care offered.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sarasota Memorial Nursing and Rehabilitation Cente Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from remaining in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This figure tells you the percent of long-term residents which suffered a fall leading to major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often caused by a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this metric could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric tells you the percent of long-term residents which are given antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents with cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who are showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percentage of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric 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 is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
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 metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better