Seabrook Senior Living

On top of being an elite nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Very few facilities fared as well in this area. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also wanted to alert you to the fact that this nursing home fared very well in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.94323 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning our next category, this nursing home was awarded first-rate short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A in this category. Short-term care scores are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that 6.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Turning to the final category, this facility also excelled in the nursing category. We awarded it a B+ in that category. This rounded out a very impressive report card. When determining our nursing ratings, we factor in both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided 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 nursing home 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 generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.