Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center is a large nursing home located in Millsboro, Delaware. It looks like this is a good nursing home. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a favorable score. Based on all of the relevant data, you could do much worse than this facility. This nursing home was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any weak links in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Hemodialysis
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
In addition, this facility also received favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. In fact, we awarded it one of our higher grades in that category, with a score of B. In calculating our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This category is frequently a useful assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home earned a very good inspection report this year as well. It earned one of our better scores in that area with a B. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we rated is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this category. For residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. As it turns out, this facility vaccinated only 68.84615 percent of its residents, which is slightly concerning. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 5.85% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 3.56% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of residents who suffered from a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 1.83% of Patients had UTIs
This figure gauges the percent of long-term patients that have suffered from UTI's. While a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is difficult to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having differing reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 11.38% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 19.25% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percent of long-term stay residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 3.54% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many would argue that this is a measure of quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 94.07% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 14.59% Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and using the bathroom. Some experts would argue this is a measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 20.95% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents who maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 1.41 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 20.95 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 10.28 Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 75.7% Percentage of Resident
This is a measure of the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Beebe Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 15.94 miles away424 Savannah Rd Lewes Delaware 19958Voluntary non-profit - Private(302) 645-3300
- Nanticoke Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17 miles away801 Middleford Rd Seaford Delaware 19973Voluntary non-profit - Private(302) 629-6611
- Atlantic General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.76 miles away9733 Healthway Drive Berlin Maryland 21811Voluntary non-profit - Private(410) 641-9600
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Millsboro0.38 miles away30164 Commerce Drive Millsboro Delaware 19966Dialysis Stations: 12 (302) 934-6342
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Mid Sussex County8.38 miles away34 Georgetown Plaza Georgetown Delaware 19947CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (302) 854-0230
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Rehoboth13.46 miles away19339 Coastal Highway, Suite 100 Rehoboth Beach Delaware 19971CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (302) 226-9330
- Dsi Laurel Dialysis, LLC15.04 miles awayLaurel Square Shopping Center 30214 Sussex Highway, Unit #4 Laurel Delaware 19956Dialysis Stations: 16 (302) 715-3060
- Dsi Seaford17.29 miles away600 Health Services Drive Seaford Delaware 19973CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (302) 262-0852
- Davita - Berlin Dialysis17.48 miles away9952 Main Street Building 3 Berlin Maryland 21811Dialysis Stations: 19 (410) 641-1321
- Fresenius Medical Care Southern Delaware, LLC19.62 miles away9115 Antique Alley Bridgeville Delaware 19933Dialysis Stations: 11 (302) 337-8789