Oceanside Health and Rehab

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

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.

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.

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.

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.