Oceanside Health and Rehab
7 Rosewood Avenue, Tybee Island GA 31328 · (912) 786-4511 · 86.58% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Oceanside Health and Rehab is an average-sized nursing home located in Tybee Island, Georgia. It looks like this facility is a subpar facility. A grade of this caliber indicates we found some red flags. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Tybee Island. The city has just one other nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive inspection reports. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category grades
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 85 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we were not high on this nursing home's overall grade, it actually received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that category with an A+. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with a list of deficiencies flagged. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's next highest score was short-term care, but it still earned just a D in that area. This still happens to be a relatively poor grade. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is often a reliable measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. As you might expect, we discovered that this facility provides significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average facility. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care grade.
Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This particular facility averaged a meager 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This number is well below average. This nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This nursing home was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this area.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we graded was long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area, which is a rock bottom score. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 73.80074 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points less than what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.25 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Oceanside Health and Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better