Solaris Healthcare Windermere is a facility located in Orlando, Florida which has a population of 878,243 people. This is an A rated facility, which is one of the top grades that we offer. Even in a city with 20 other nursing homes, this nursing home is appealing. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's stellar report card is its inspection rating. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
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Solaris Healthcare Windermere
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
On top of being a strong facility overall, it also earned A+ government inspections in recent years. Its inspections were nearly perfect. Our inspection ratings are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also received a very strong short-term care grade. In fact, this ended up being this nursing home's second strongest category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A. Our short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our next area, we awarded this nursing home a score of A for our long-term care rating. This is a dominant score. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.4723 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Lastly, 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.
Nurse Quality
In the last category, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our nursing rating. This rounded out a very strong report card. When calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we assess the amount of time nurses spend with residents as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Solaris Healthcare Windermere Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Solaris Healthcare Windermere, 8.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of long-term patients which suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Solaris Healthcare Windermere, 1.06% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Solaris Healthcare Windermere, 1.44% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Solaris Healthcare Windermere, 3.24% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents that were given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Solaris Healthcare Windermere, 12.61% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Solaris Healthcare Windermere, 1.14% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients exhibiting depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Solaris Healthcare Windermere, 99.74% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Solaris Healthcare Windermere, 6.45% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of decline of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Solaris Healthcare Windermere, 8.04% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry argue that the ability to move around is vital to patients health.
Hospitalizations
In Solaris Healthcare Windermere, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Solaris Healthcare Windermere, 8.04% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Solaris Healthcare Windermere, 6.76% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Solaris Healthcare Windermere, 90.02% of Resident
This is the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Orlando, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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