Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation is an average-sized nursing home located in Clearwater, Florida. This nursing home received an A- overall, which is among the top scores we offer. A grade in this range requires first-rate marks across the board. We were not surprised to discover that this is actually one of the three best nursing homes in Clearwater. If you look further down this page, you can see this facility's category scores, which are also quite good.
Get our free e-book to learn all about your senior care options.
Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
Get pricing and details on Clearwater senior living options.
Get PricingQuick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
Get our free e-book to learn all about your senior care options.
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with a strong overall score, we gave this place a grade of A+ for our inspection category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Short-term Care Quality
Among its many impressive scores, this facility was given a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that category. Short-term care grades are often used to grade a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Does this page answer your questions about Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation?
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at was long-term care. This facility received an impressive long-term care grade, with a B in this category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 97.97571 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Nurse Quality
The last area we assessed is nursing, in which this nursing home received a B. Even though this wound up being its lowest category grade, this is still a quality grade. Our nursing rating assesses a handful of factors, most of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 8.21% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients who have pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 3.24% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls resulting in injury are routinely caused by poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 0.89% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely linked to a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this statistic may also be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 5.53% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 23.08% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 0% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 98.6% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 12.96% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 14.3% of Residents
This tells you the percent of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 14.3% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 11.59% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 71.46% of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Scores for Clearwater, 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? Clearwater, Florida has 13 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Mease Countryside HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.08 miles away3231 Mcmullen Booth Rd Safety Harbor Florida 34695Voluntary non-profit - Private(727) 734-6950
- Mease Dunedin HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.03 miles away601 Main St Dunedin Florida 34698Voluntary non-profit - Private(727) 733-1111
- Adventhealth North PinellasAcute Care Hospitals 6.9 miles away1395 S Pinellas Ave Tarpon Springs Florida 34689Voluntary non-profit - Other(727) 942-5000
- Morton Plant HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.62 miles away300 Pinellas St Clearwater Florida 33756Voluntary non-profit - Private(727) 462-7000
- Largo Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.59 miles away201 14th St Sw Largo Florida 33770Proprietary(727) 588-5200
- Medical Center of TrinityAcute Care Hospitals 11.77 miles away9330 Sr 54, Ste 401 New Port Richey Florida 34655Proprietary(727) 834-4900
- Adventhealth CarrollwoodAcute Care Hospitals 12.62 miles away7171 N Dale Mabry Hwy Tampa Florida 33614Voluntary non-profit - Church(813) 932-2222
- Northside HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.78 miles away6000 49th St N Saint Petersburg Florida 33709Proprietary(813) 521-5000
Nearby Dialysis
- Rai-Us 19 North-Clearwater1.99 miles away29296 Us Hwy 19 N #1 Clearwater Florida 33761CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (727) 785-9036
- Bma - Clearwater2.64 miles away26338 Us Hwy 19 N Clearwater Florida 33761CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (727) 723-8123
- Fresenius Kidney Care-Dunedin3.27 miles away1121 Overcash Drive Suite A Dunedin Florida 34698Dialysis Stations: 24 (727) 733-1112
- Gulf Breeze Dialysis Center3.64 miles away1519 Main Street Dunedin Florida 34698Dialysis Stations: 25 (727) 738-4425
- Tarpon Springs Dialysis, LLC7.7 miles away41747 Us Highway 19 North Tarpon Springs Florida 34689Dialysis Stations: 21 (727) 934-8774
- Fmc - Belleair Home Therapies8.59 miles away617 Lakeview Rd Suite C Clearwater Florida 33756Dialysis Stations: 2 (727) 441-2913
- Fkc - Belleair Dialysis Center8.59 miles away617 Lakeview Road Suite B Clearwater Florida 33756CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (727) 441-8590
- Renviva Dialysis Center of Clearwater, LLC8.62 miles away401 Corbett Suite 250 Clearwater Florida 33756Dialysis Stations: 2 (727) 281-4490