Absecon Manor Nurs/Rehab Cntr

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also was given a superb long-term care score. We gave them a strong strong of A- in this category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.76415 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. There are numerous criteria included in this category. Many of the datapoints reflect staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last area we assessed is short-term care, which proved to be a weak spot for this facility. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in the area of short-term care, rendering this its least impressive grade. We would nevertheless suggest that you consider all of a facility's category grades. Our short-term care ratings are probably more meaningful for individuals in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.