Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi is an average-sized non-profit facility in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This is a quality facility, with an overall grade of B+. Even in a city featuring 10 other nursing homes, this facility looks like a great option. The best part of this place's profile is is its short-term care grade. short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi
Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
6401 Auburn Dr,
Virginia Beach VA 23464
84.75% estimated occupancy 1
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Short-term Care Quality
On top of earning a strong overall grade, this nursing home fared well in our short-term care category. We awarded it a grade of A for that category. In the category of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Virginia in this area with 69.7 percent of its patients returning home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also excelled in inspections. We awarded it a grade of A- for that area, which is one of our best scores. This is one of the few facilities with an overall grade in this range which earned multiple category grades this high. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A few minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.
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Long-term Care Quality
In addition, this facility also was awarded favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded it one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a grade of B. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered on top of this nursing home's impressive nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for seniors. This combination proved to be successful as this facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Nurse Quality
The next area we analyzed is nursing, in which this facility was given a B. This nursing home ended up being relatively strong in all areas we analyzed. There are numerous factors within this grade. Most of the factors are tied to staffing levels. This facility provided 5.1 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which was among the more impressive figures we found. Finally, this place was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. For example, it performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi, 8.83% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi, 3.6% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi, 2.65% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents that sustained UTI's. Although more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare between facilities due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi, 13.5% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, such as dementia. Sadly, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi, 21.24% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure tells you the percent of long-term care patients taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi, 4.13% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression. Increased rates of depression may be an indicator a less hospitable environment.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi, 91.75% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these vaccines vital to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi, 16.97% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi, 23.72% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi, 1.22 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi, 23.72 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi, 11.68 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Beth Sholom Home of Eastern Vi, 75.36% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living usually correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Scores for Virginia Beach, VA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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- Sentara Virginia Beach General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.1 miles away1060 First Colonial Road Virginia Beach Virginia 23454Voluntary non-profit - Other(757) 395-8000
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