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Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: B
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1415 S Hickory St,
Melbourne FL 32901

(321) 723-1321

71.81% estimated occupancy 1

Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home in Melbourne, Florida, which has a population of 139,650 people. This turns out to be a quality facility, with an overall grade of B. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Melbourne. If you look below, you will see this facility's category grades, which are also impressive.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Individual
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Recreational Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

To go along with its strong overall score, we awarded this place an A- for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that area, we awarded this facility an B. The nursing rating weighs a variety of datapoints. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Florida in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving a patient even once per day.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B

This nursing home also was given an impressive long-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B in this category. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.176956 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B

Turning to our fourth category, this nursing home received a strong short-term care grade. This nursing home didn't prove to have any real weak links. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. We weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-minus

In Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center, 8.7% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term residents who have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A

In Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.23% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percent of patients that have had a fall leading to severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.25% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents which have had urinary tract infections. UTI's may be a sign of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this metric could be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center, 7.89% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for many conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center, 19.63% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents which are prescribed antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically used to treat patients suffering from depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-plus

In Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center, 2.21% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients showing symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center, 98.78% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center, 18% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate decline of a resident's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center, 21.17% of Residents

This indicates the percentage of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center, 21.17% of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B

In Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center, 11.3% of Patients

This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge patient well-being during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A

In Wave Crest Health and Rehabilitation Center, 91.42% of Resident

This datapoint measures the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some argue that this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.

Scores for Melbourne, FL

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus

Looking for more options? Melbourne, Florida has 9 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Holmes Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.02 miles away1350 S Hickory St Melbourne Florida 32901Voluntary non-profit - Private(321) 434-7000
  • Steward Melbourne HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.9 miles away250 North Wickham Road Melbourne Florida 32935Proprietary(321) 752-1200
  • Palm Bay HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.07 miles away1425 Malabar Rd, Ne Palm Bay Florida 32907Proprietary(321) 434-8000
  • Viera HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.91 miles away8745 N Wickham Rd Melbourne Florida 32940Voluntary non-profit - Private(321) 434-9000
  • Steward Sebastian River Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 18.07 miles away13695 Us Hwy 1 Sebastian Florida 32978Proprietary(772) 589-3187
  • Steward Rockledge HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.07 miles away110 Longwood Ave Rockledge Florida 32955Proprietary(321) 637-2603
  • Cape Canaveral HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.63 miles away701 W Cocoa Beach Causeway Cocoa Beach Florida 32932Voluntary non-profit - Private(321) 799-7111

Nearby Dialysis

  • Melbourne Kidney Center0.28 miles away1400 S Apollo Blvd Melbourne Florida 32901CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 28 (321) 724-0461
  • Melbourne Dialysis0.89 miles away2235 South Babcock St Melbourne Florida 32901Dialysis Stations: 16 (321) 956-6252
  • Fmc - Brevard Home Therapies3.89 miles away2200 W Eau Gallie Blvd #202a Melbourne Florida 32935Dialysis Stations: 4 (321) 259-1181
  • Renal Care Group - Brevard3.95 miles away1355 Palm Bay Rd Palm Bay Florida 32905Dialysis Stations: 20 (321) 768-9801
  • Palm Bay Kidney Center5.88 miles away220 Medplex Pkwy Ne Palm Bay Florida 32907CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (321) 722-2709
  • Fmc - Palm Bay7.13 miles away450 Malabar Rd Se #101 Palm Bay Florida 32907Dialysis Stations: 17 (321) 409-0874
  • Dsi - Viera Dialysis11.51 miles away8041 Spyglass Hill Rd Suite 101 Melbourne Florida 32940Dialysis Stations: 18 (321) 254-4553
  • North Melbourne Dialysis Inc12.94 miles away14 Suntree Place Suite 102 Melbourne Florida 32940Dialysis Stations: 10 (321) 253-9033

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=105207