Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center is a large nursing home located in Millsboro, Delaware. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack grade. Based on our assessment, there are definitely far worse places out there. The best part of this place's profile is is its nursing score. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph.
Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
- Audiology
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. We weighed the licensure of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in computing our score in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a resident more frequently.
Short-term Care Quality
We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received a great short-term care score. Indeed, it received one of our most impressive scores in this area with a score of A-. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.
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Facility Inspections
This facility also earned favorable inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. This grade is also better than the facility's overall score. Inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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 next area we assessed was long-term care, proved to be this facility's weakest category. We gave this facility a grade of D in this category. This really was one of just a few dings of a quality report card. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home gave the vaccine to only 70.39848 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.
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, 5.95% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care reduces the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 3.42% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that sustained a fall leading to serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 1.82% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are used for several medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 19.9% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 3.38% of Patients
This is the percent of residents who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 94.32% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 15.2% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the deterioration of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 21.99% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 1.37 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to maintaining the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 21.99 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 10.41 Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Atlantic Shores Rehabilitation & Health Center, 76.04% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living generally correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
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