Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center is in Pensacola, Florida. This city is one of the largest cities in the country with has 254,917 people. Featuring an overall grade of B+, this looks like a strong nursing home. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top third of all nursing homes in the country. The best part of this facility's impressive report card was its inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next section
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Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center
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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
- For profit - Partnership
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out that this nursing home has received near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Inspection grades are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this nursing home a grade of A- for our long-term care score. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.681526 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the senior population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home received an impressive short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our better grades in that area with a score of B. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
The next category we looked at was nursing. This nursing home received a very good nursing score this year, with a B-. While this is not nearly as strong as many of its other category grades, this is nevertheless a decent rating in this category. In calculating our nursing grades, we assess both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This place averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is well below average. Finally, we look at quality-based statistics, such as the percentage of residents who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these data points are decent indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center, 5.7% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients which developed pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a great measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center, 4.46% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are routinely linked to poor nursing care. More supervision minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.03% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric may also be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center, 14.19% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center, 24.35% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center, 6.6% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center, 99.84% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center, 15.21% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center, 11.92% of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center, 11.92% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center, 22.57% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Specialty Health and Rehabilitation Center, 80.61% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with activities of daily living generally correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
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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Nearby Dialysis
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