Suwannee Health and Rehabilitation Center
1620 Helvenston St Se, Live Oak FL 32064 · (386) 362-7860 · 96.72% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Suwannee Health and Rehabilitation Center is a large facility in Live Oak, Florida. With an overall score of B+, this nursing home should work for most prospective residents. Impressively, the nursing homes in Live Oak received high scores across the board, making this one of the best places in Florida to find a nursing home. As you can find below, this facility also performed just fine in our category scores. It's hard to poke holes in this place's profile.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 180 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being an elite facility overall, this facility also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned a grade of A+. Few places fared this well in this area. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.
Nurse Quality
This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Nursing scores are mostly associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This facility provides an incredible 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is much more care than what is provided by most facilities. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its residents sustaining falls leading to serious injury, this place performed as well as any facility in the state.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility received an impressive short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our better scores in that area with a score of B. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is often a fair assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This place performed decently in this area, with 48.1 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to the final category, this facility received an excellent long-term care score. This facility did not prove to have any weak links. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the very impressive nursing hours and other staffing provided by this nursing home, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.81557 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is much higher than most nursing homes. This combination proved to be successful as this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. While it had 1.72 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was better than most nursing homes due to it having more complex patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Suwannee Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision. Closer supervision limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percent of long-term patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression could indicate a lower level of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of patients who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom. Many in the industry argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that were able to retain mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to preserving the physical health of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you 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 is a measure of 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 gauge short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better