Egg Harbor Care Center

With an address in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, Egg Harbor Care Center is the only facility we identified there. It looks like this nursing home is among the most elite facilities we assessed. A grade in this range requires excellent scores across the board. Based on our assessment, this nursing home looks like a great choice for most people. Headlining this nursing home's stellar profile is its inspection grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.

We also wanted to point out that this facility has received near flawless health inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also would like to alert you to the fact that this nursing home was awarded a first-rate grade of A in our long-term care area. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 95.48872 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. The last datapoint we looked at is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.43 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

We also would like to emphasize the fact that this nursing home was awarded an elite score of A- in our short-term care category. In calculating these short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home, which as an area this facility performed much more favorably. This place outperformed the vast majority of facilities in this area with 58.2 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

Moving on to our final area, this facility also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in that category. This finalized a very impressive profile. Our nursing score is based on a handful of subcategories, however, the paramount one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.