Springtree Rehabilitation & Health Care Center
4251 Springtree Drive, Fort Lauderdale FL 33351 · (954) 572-4251 · 94.27% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Springtree Rehabilitation & Health Care Center is in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which is one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the country. Sporting an overall grade of A+, this nursing home is undoubtedly a top-shelf facility. This facility even turned out to be one of the better nursing homes in the city, which boasts as impressive a group of nursing homes as any city in the state. As you can see below, this place performed equally well in our category scores. We give this place two thumbs up!
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 110 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ long-term care grade. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. On top of looking at the elite level of care provided by aids and other staff at this facility, we also were impressed by the facility's vaccination record. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.591835 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. The last statistic we looked at is the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.4 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received an A+ nursing grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. Our nursing rating is largely based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place provides an incredible 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is much more care than what is offered by most facilities. Lastly, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any facility the country in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these statistics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care offered.
Facility Inspections
Continuing with its first-class performance, this facility also received an A+ inspection grade. This is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none 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
In the last category we graded, this nursing home received an impressive grade grade of A in our short-term care category. With this grade, the facility topped off a straight A profile. With our short-term care assessment, we try to create a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. On top of excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it fared as well as just about any facility in the nation in this area with 61.6 percent of its residents returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Springtree Rehabilitation & Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents which have sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better