Solaris Healthcare Pensacola is a large non-profit nursing home located in Pensacola, Florida. This facility really stands out with a grade of A overall. Remarkably, this is higher than the city grade of A- in Pensacola, which is one of the higher rated cities in Florida. Even in a city featuring 13 other nursing homes, this facility caught our attention as a superb choice. Headlining this place's stellar profile is its long-term care rating, which you can find in the next section.
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Solaris Healthcare Pensacola
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
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Long-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent long-term care score, with a grade of A. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also fared very well in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A. Not many nursing homes received a better grade in this category. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
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Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. We weighed the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses spent with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving a patient more frequently.
Facility Inspections
Lastly, we also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them a B+ in this category. Inspection scores account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Solaris Healthcare Pensacola Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Solaris Healthcare Pensacola, 6.83% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Solaris Healthcare Pensacola, 3.06% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are often the result of lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care limits the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Solaris Healthcare Pensacola, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term patients who have had urinary tract infections. While a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Solaris Healthcare Pensacola, 7.92% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of long-term stay residents taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Solaris Healthcare Pensacola, 16.87% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are given antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Solaris Healthcare Pensacola, 5.58% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Solaris Healthcare Pensacola, 99.83% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Solaris Healthcare Pensacola, 1.27% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Solaris Healthcare Pensacola, 1.05% of Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents that maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Solaris Healthcare Pensacola, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to preserving the physical health of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Solaris Healthcare Pensacola, 1.05% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Solaris Healthcare Pensacola, 12.58% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Solaris Healthcare Pensacola, 92.58% of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Pensacola, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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