Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Winter Haven, Florida. This nursing home received an A- overall, which is one of the most impressive ratings we offer. A grade of this caliber requires superb scores across the board. This turned out to be better than many of the nursing homes in Winter Haven, which boasts a strong selection of nursing homes. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which we will address in the next section.
Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center
Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
1540 6th St Nw,
Winter Haven FL 33881
93.33% estimated occupancy 1
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Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a great overall rating, this facility also earned an A+ inspection score. This grade is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can offer a nursing home. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Adding to its top-shelf performance in other areas, we awarded this facility a score of A for its long-term care score. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. In addition to really impressive nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination records was as good as it gets also. Indeed, it vaccinated 99.095024 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. While it had 2.52 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was close to the national average due to it having some more complex patients.
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Short-term Care Quality
We also would like to point out the fact that this facility received a first-rate grade of A- in our short-term care category. Short-term care grades are generally used to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. We were extremely impressed to find that this facility offers its residents substantially more physical therapist hours than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in the nation in this area with 59.4 percent of its residents returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this metric.
Nurse Quality
The next area we analyzed is nursing. This facility received a very good nursing rating this year, with a grade of C. While this was not nearly as impressive as some of its other category grades, this is nevertheless a decent grade in this area. The nursing rating weighs quite a few factors, but the main one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. With 5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the vast majority of facilities. Lastly, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This facility was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average figures for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center, 9.04% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care residents which are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center, 2.8% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are often the result of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center, 1.81% of Patients had UTIs
This figure measures the percent of long-term patients who experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indication of lower quality nursing care. However, this statistic could be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center, 11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center, 21.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center, 2.43% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some experts argue that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center, 95.03% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center, 13.16% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center, 18.15% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center, 1.59 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center, 18.15 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center, 9.19 Percentage of Patients
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Spring Lake Rehabilitation Center, 77.65% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Scores for Winter Haven, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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Nearby Hospitals
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- Lakeland Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 13.55 miles away1324 Lakeland Hills Blvd Lakeland Florida 33805Voluntary non-profit - Private(863) 687-1100
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- Poinciana Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 17.76 miles away325 Cypress Pkwy Kissimmee Florida 34758Proprietary(407) 530-2000
Nearby Dialysis
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- Florida Dialysis Center of Haines City LLC10.53 miles away2340 North Boulevard West Davenport Florida 33837Dialysis Stations: 20 (863) 353-6886
- Bartow Dialysis11.89 miles away1190 E Church St Bartow Florida 33830Dialysis Stations: 16 (863) 533-1601
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