Jersey Shore Post Acute

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Inspection ratings 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. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This facility also was awarded a positive score in our long-term care category. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.58848 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility's third highest area ended up being short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

The next category we looked at was nursing. We awarded it a C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. We scrutinized the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.