Vicar's Landing Nursing Home
1003 York Road, Ponte Vedra Beach FL 32082 · (904) 285-1055 · 72.66% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With an address in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Vicar's Landing Nursing Home is the lone option we identified in this area. This facility is one of the highest-rated nursing homes we found. Receiving an A+ in our grading system requires excellent performance across the board. We really couldn't find many bad things to say about this place. Its scores are impeccable. Headlining this place's exemplary profile is its nursing grade, which we will address in the next section.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing grade. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. The nursing grade is based on a number of subcategories. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This particular facility provided 5 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This was one of the better totals we found. In addition, a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of providing high levels of care, this nursing home was also above average in several of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. It performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also received a virtually flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that area with an A+. This was one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Another strength for this nursing home is long-term care, where it was given an A+ grade. This is simply as elite as it gets in this category. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of providing very impressive levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This figure is also much higher than most nursing homes. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.07 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a substantially lower hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.
Short-term Care Quality
In our last category, we gave this facility an A+ for its short-term care score. This completed a very impressive report card. Short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. This place fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 50.9 percent of its patients returning home. With most nursing homes, less than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Vicar's Landing Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care 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 indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's often correlates with better rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better