Westminster St Augustine
230 Towerview Drive, Saint Augustine FL 32092 · (904) 940-4801 · 63.66% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Westminster St Augustine is one of six nursing homes located in Saint Augustine, Florida. With an overall rating of A+, this facility is ranked among the top nursing homes we found. This nursing home turned out to be one of the better facilities in Saint Augustine, which boasts a good selection of nursing homes. One of the major highlights of this facility's remarkable profile is its short-term care grade. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 :
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Non profit - Church related
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
One of the many reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is generally a meaningful assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. This place excelled at the highest level in two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it provided about 50% more care from registered nurses and physical therapists than the average facility. This is an excellent sign. The final measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Florida in this area with 68 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, this nursing home received elite marks in the category of long-term care. As a result, it was given one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of A+. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of offering very favorable levels of nursing care, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This figure is also far better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. We scrutinized the levels of nurses at the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this area. This particular nursing home provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This was one of the better totals we found. Furthermore, we found that 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 offering impressive levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality measures we looked at. With below 5 percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this facility's impressive profile, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of A for our inspections rating. With this grade, the nursing home completes its straight A report card. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Westminster St Augustine Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure tells you the percent of long-term patients which are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls resulting in injury are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for many medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term residents who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could indicate deterioration of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better