St Johns Nursing Center
3075 Nw 35th Ave, Fort Lauderdale FL 33311 · (954) 739-6233 · 93.2% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
St Johns Nursing Center is a large non-profit nursing home located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This nursing home was given a superb overall rating of A, making it ranked among the five highest graded nursing homes in Fort Lauderdale. Even in a city with 19 nursing homes, this facility stands out. One of the best aspects of this facility's exemplary profile is its short-term care rating. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 181 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in our shot-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our short-term care grade is often used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This nursing home provides a decent amount of services from physical therapists and registered nurses based on our assessment. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This place outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 59.9 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an A. Our nursing score looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the more impressive totals we found. Lastly, this place was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. It received one of our best grades in that category with an A. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
In our final category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care rating. This wrapped up a very strong profile. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to looking at the impressive quantity of care provided by aids and other staff at this facility, we also were happy with the nursing home's vaccination data. For example, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. The last datapoint we looked at is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 2.63 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Johns Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Major falls which result in injury are often caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used for several medical conditions, including dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of patients showing symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Many argue that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better