Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center

Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Winter Haven, Florida. We gave this facility an overall grade of B+. A score of this caliber requires solid scores in most areas. If you take a look at the other options in Winter Haven, we are confident you will find this place to be a better option than most facilities in the city. This facility was better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home received nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A+. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Another one of this nursing home's above average category grades came in the category of short-term care. We gave them one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a grade of B+. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This facility improved its grade in this area by offering more than one and a half times as many physical therapy hours than the average facility. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Florida in this area with 61.1 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home was awarded its third best category score in the category of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a B- in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. In the area of long-term care, we focus on the quantity of care provided by a facility, rather than more sophisticated services. After assessing the very respectable amount of nursing hours and other staffing provided by this facility, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which appears to be higher than the average nursing home. This combination proved to be effective as this facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. While it had 2.23 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than most facilities due to it having some more complex patients.

The last category we analyzed is nursing. This nursing home received a strong nursing score in our assessment, with a B-. While this is not nearly as strong as a few of its other scores, this is nevertheless a respectable rating in that category. The nursing score weighs several subcategories, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.7 hours per resident per day. This is well above average. Lastly, we also factored some quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. Specifically, we looked at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.