Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center is one of only two available facilities in Lewes, Delaware. With an overall grade of A, this nursing home is one of the highest-rated nursing homes we looked at. Based on our assessment, this place is really as good as it gets. As you can see below, this facility performed just as well in our category grades. In fact, we gave it straight A's!
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Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Short-term Care Quality
To go along with its strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A for our short-term care rating. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is frequently a reliable assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we considered in this area is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. Our nursing rating is largely based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 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 facility 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 frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Facility Inspections
This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Long-term Care Quality
In our last category, this facility also received an excellent long-term care rating, with an A-. This completed a very impressive profile. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 98.305084 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not take any chances. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center, 4.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of long-term patients who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center, 5.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a fall which caused major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center, 1.8% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often the result of worse hygiene protocols. More frequent bathing can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this metric is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center, 12.13% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term residents who are given antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs aren't medically required. However, some nursing homes may need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of residents suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center, 32.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center, 1.57% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many in the industry believe this is a measure of resident quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center, 98.43% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center, 21.88% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center, 22.52% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center, 22.52% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center, 17.81% of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the quality of care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Harbor Healthcare & Rehab Center, 90.2% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some argue that this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Beebe Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.1 miles away424 Savannah Rd Lewes Delaware 19958Voluntary non-profit - Private(302) 645-3300
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Rehoboth3.84 miles away19339 Coastal Highway, Suite 100 Rehoboth Beach Delaware 19971CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (302) 226-9330
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Mid Sussex County14.54 miles away34 Georgetown Plaza Georgetown Delaware 19947CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (302) 854-0230
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Millsboro14.75 miles away30164 Commerce Drive Millsboro Delaware 19966Dialysis Stations: 12 (302) 934-6342
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Milford17.3 miles away656d North Dupont Highway Milford Delaware 19963CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (302) 424-0552
- Fresenius Medical Care North Cape May19.5 miles away3301 Bayshore Rd Cape May New Jersey 08204Dialysis Stations: 19 (609) 884-5476