Eastport Memorial Nursing Home

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing category assesses many subcategories, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country 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 policy of turning patients even once per day.

This facility has earned near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this area. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning our third area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care rating. This is a very impressive score. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.93617 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the final category we analyzed, this nursing home was given an impressive grade grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility finished off an elite profile. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most critical for people requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.