Asbury Park

We also would like to point out the fact that this nursing home has earned excellent inspections recently. We awarded them an A in this category. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category usually have very few severe deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

To add to its impressive accomplishments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A- for its short-term care grade. In calculating these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. The nursing score weighs several datapoints, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the last area, we awarded this nursing home an A for its long-term care score. This completed a very impressive report card. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 76.608185 percent of its residents. This is slightly lower than we were hoping for but still a decent figure. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.