Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation is an average-sized nursing home located in Clearwater, Florida. This nursing home proved to be an A rated facility. This facility was given one of the best grades we offer. A score in this range requires excellent scores across the board. We were not surprised to discover that this is one of the five highest graded facilities in Clearwater. If you look further down this page, you can see this facility's category ratings, which are also quite good.
Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Grade: A
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Partnership
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
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Facility Inspections
Grade: A-plus
In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Short-term Care Quality
Grade: A
To complement its top-shelf performance in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its short-term care grade. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
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Nurse Quality
Grade: B-plus
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
Grade: B-plus
In the last category, this nursing home also was given an excellent long-term care grade, with a B+. This topped off an elite profile. 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 98.58156 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 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
Grade: C
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 9.08% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often caused by residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
Grade: B
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 2.82% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are routinely associated with poor nursing care. More supervision can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
Grade: D
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 1.81% of Patients had UTIs
This figure measures the percentage of long-term care residents who have suffered from UTI's. UTI's could be an indicator of worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic may be misleading for some facilities due to different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
Grade: A
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 10.64% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
Grade: B
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 21.27% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are typically used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
Grade: B
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 2.33% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Grade: B
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 94.94% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Grade: D
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 13.07% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Grade: A-minus
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 16.78% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Some experts believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' health.
Hospitalizations
Grade: D
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 1.76 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to the physical health of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Grade: C
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 16.78 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Grade: A-minus
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 9.16 Percentage of Patients
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Grade: D
In Westchester Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, 78.49% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Clearwater, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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