580 W 8th Street, Jacksonville FL 32209 · (904) 244-1812 · 69.82% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Shands Jacksonville Medical Center is a nursing home located in Jacksonville, Florida which has 810,498 people. Featuring an overall grade of A+, we deemed this nursing home as ranked among the three highest graded nursing homes in the city. Overall grades in this range are a great indication of a world class facility. Even in a city with 31 nursing homes, this facility caught our attention as a fine selection. If you look further down this page, you can see this place's category ratings, which are just as strong as its overall rating.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 56 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Short-term Care Quality
A+
Historical
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in the area of short-term care. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. This place is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. The facility offered about 1.5 times as many physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. This is what we look for when assessing a nursing home in this category. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Florida in this area with 86.2 percent of its residents returning home. At most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
A+
Historical
Adding to an already impressive profile, this facility also received virtually flawless health inspections in recent years. As a result, we awarded it an A+ inspection grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Nurse Quality
A
Historical
This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this category. This facility boasts a really impressive 7.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which a significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of care, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients suffering falls leading to major injury, this place performed as well as any facility the country.
Long-term Care Quality
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Historical
In the last category we assessed, this nursing home received an impressive grade grade of A in our long-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home wrapped up a straight A report card. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. In addition to looking at the elite level of care provided by aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were pleased by the nursing home's vaccination data. By way of example, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Aug 20
Provider:
A+
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B+
National:
B
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Shands Jacksonville Medical Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in one position for too long.
Provider
F
33.33%
State
B
8%
National
B
7.33%
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a fall leading to serious injury.
Provider
A+
0%
State
B+
2.68%
National
B
3.36%
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents which had a UTI. UTI's could be an indication of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Provider
F
8.33%
State
B+
2.38%
National
B
2.65%
Percent of Patients with UTIs Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Provider
A+
2.7%
State
B+
12.84%
National
B
14.18%
Percent of Patients Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of long-term patients that were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Provider
D
35.14%
State
B-
22.63%
National
B
19.67%
Percent of Patients Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many believe that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Provider
D
9.38%
State
A-
1.2%
National
B+
5.09%
Percent of Patients Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Provider
A
100%
State
B+
93.33%
National
B
92.04%
Percent of Patients Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a resident's well-being.