Williston Care Center is an average-sized nursing home in Williston, Florida. With an overall grade of B, this appears to be a good option. You could certainly do much worse than this nursing home. This place's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next section.
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Williston Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
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Facility Inspections
In addition to being a strong facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. Not many facilities performed better in this area. Inspection ratings are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.
Long-term Care Quality
An additional strong feature for this facility is that it was awarded a very positive long-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be its second best category score. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B+. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
In addition, this facility also was given favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded them one of our stronger grades in that area, with a score of B. Our short-term care grade is often used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
The next area we analyzed was nursing, which is this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that category. Unfortunately, this grade hurt the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. In computing a nursing home's nursing score, we look at the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This place provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Unfortunately, this place also did not fare as well as we had hoped in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed for this category.
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Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Williston Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Williston Care Center, 7.73% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Williston Care Center, 6.3% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents that have experienced falls leading to severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Williston Care Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely caused by facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Additional nurse staffing reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Williston Care Center, 3.51% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be helpful for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Williston Care Center, 12.7% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients who are administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically used to treat residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Williston Care Center, 1.3% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients showing depressive symptoms. High levels of depression could reveal worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Williston Care Center, 100% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Williston Care Center, 6.8% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Williston Care Center, 11.04% of Residents
This metric tracks the percent of long-term patients who were able to retain mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Williston Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Williston Care Center, 11.04% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Williston Care Center, 5.23% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Williston Care Center, 84.08% of Resident
This is the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's typically correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Regional General Hospital WillistonAcute Care Hospitals 0.38 miles away125 Sw 7th St Williston Florida 32696Proprietary(352) 528-2801
- Uf Health Shands HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.67 miles away1600 Sw Archer Rd Gainesville Florida 32610Voluntary non-profit - Private(352) 265-8000
- North Florida Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 18.93 miles away6500 Newberry Rd Gainesville Florida 32605Proprietary(352) 333-4100
Nearby Dialysis
- Shands at Univ of Fl Outpatient Dialysis17.84 miles away2409 Sw Archer Rd Gainesville Florida 32608Dialysis Stations: 26 (352) 265-6890
- Shands Hospital - Pediatric Dialysis18.83 miles away1600 Sw Archer Road Gainesville Florida 32610Dialysis Stations: 5 (352) 265-0265
- Gainesville Home Dialysis19 miles away4960 W Newberry Rd #280 Gainesville Florida 32607Dialysis Stations: 3 (352) 378-4960
- Gainesville Newberry Dialysis19.15 miles away1177 Nw 64th Terrace Gainesville Florida 32605Dialysis Stations: 18 (352) 332-0679
- Bma - Gainesville19.48 miles away1775 Nw 80th Blvd Gainesville Florida 32606CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (352) 332-8998