Scott Lake Health and Rehabilitation Center
800 E County Rd 540a, Lakeland FL 33813 · (850) 386-2831 · 59.75% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Scott Lake Health and Rehabilitation Center is one of 11 options in Lakeland, Florida. Sporting an overall rating of A, this facility is ranked among the top nursing homes we found. This nursing home turned out to be one of the better facilities in Lakeland, which boasts a good selection of nursing homes. One of the major highlights of this facility's remarkable profile is its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it earned an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this area. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it does not look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
Compounding its high-end performance in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A- for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This nursing home is above the national average in terms of both its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was strong in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a score of A-. Only a select group of facilities received a better grade in this category. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of providing very favorable levels of nursing care, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 2.54 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than the majority of nursing homes since it had more complicated patients.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to the fourth area, this nursing home received an extremely favorable nursing rating. We gave it a B+ in that area, rounding out one of our finer profiles. In computing our nursing grades, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.8 hours per patient per day. This is more nursing care than nearly any other facility provides. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its residents sustaining falls which lead to serious injury, this facility performed as well as any nursing home in Florida.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Scott Lake Health and Rehabilitation Center 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