The Terrace of Jacksonville
10680 Old St Augustine Rd, Jacksonville FL 32257 · (904) 268-4953 · 100.61% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With an address in Jacksonville, Florida, The Terrace of Jacksonville is on a list of 31 nursing homes in the city. This is a quality nursing home with a grade of B+ overall. We were pleased to find out that many of the other facilities in Jacksonville received similar scores. You can definitely do much worse than this place. This nursing home is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of our major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 180 Beds
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For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that area with a grade of A+. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also was given a high-end long-term care grade. We gave them a dominant grade of A- in this area. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.830505 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is too frequently a deadly ailment for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.06 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility a respectable score in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. With our short-term care rating, we seek to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. 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. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. This place fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 52.9 percent of its patients returning home. For most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
The final category we assessed is nursing. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an acceptable grade of B-. This actually ended up being this nursing home's least impressive area. The nursing rating includes many components, but the main consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored in some quality-based measures. This facility scored well in some of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home outpaced the national average. This is usually an indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided with better nursing care.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Terrace of Jacksonville Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents which developed pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that sustained a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. Closer supervision can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean 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 percentage of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many 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 the percent of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better