Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center is located in Melbourne, Florida, a city with a total of 139,650 people. This nursing home proved to be a very respectable facility, with an overall grade of B. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Melbourne. The best aspect of this facility's strong profile was its inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph
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Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center
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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Lymphedema Care
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
On top of being a strong facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A. Few facilities fared better in this area. Inspection grades are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also was awarded a top-shelf long-term care grade. We gave them an elite strong of A in this area. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.71671 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Nurse Quality
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. We weighed the licensure of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we analyzed was short-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. Of course, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to a certain degree. Short-term care grades are vital for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We found that this facility was below average in multiple staffing metrics we looked at. In fact, it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center, 4.62% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients who developed pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are an measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center, 1.7% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . Falls are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center, 0.3% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint could also be skewed for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center, 3.87% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients which are administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs are not medically required. However, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents suffering from cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center, 15.12% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center, 5.44% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents showing depressive symptoms. Increased rates of depression could be a sign lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center, 98.5% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center, 10.99% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center, 18.58% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center, 18.58% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center, 16.59% of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center, 81.18% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts believe this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Melbourne, FL
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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Nearby Dialysis
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