Medilodge at the Shore

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its relatively favorable short-term care grade. We gave it a respectable grade of B+ in this area. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is typically a useful assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Adding to its strong profile, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with an B+. Our nursing grade is largely based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Unfortunately, with a grade of D in the inspection category, this facility performed relatively poorly in that area. One of the most important factors in assessing inspection reports is deficiencies. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. Amazingly, this particular nursing didn't have any deficiencies on its inspection report. Clearly, this was not the area dragging down its inspection grade. Lastly, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received large government fines in recent years of more than $100,000. This usually means that a nursing home's bad track record spanned multiple years.

Moving on to the fourth area, this facility didn't fare well here either. Due to a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. We were a bit worried that this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to only 85.97403 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.