Coastal Manor

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection ratings are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

We also gave this nursing home a positive grade in long-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B+ in this category, which is one of our higher grades. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.42767 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home received its next best category grade in the category of short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a C in this area, which is a respectable grade. With our short-term care rating, we endeavor to forge a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. It doesn't appear that this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.

This facility's worst category is nursing, which is the last category we assessed. In this category, we gave this nursing home a D. Nursing ratings are primarily based on the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.