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Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-plus
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21 W Clarke Avenue,
Milford DE 19963

(722) 262-2255

61.1% estimated occupancy 1

Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is one of a mere three nursing homes located in Milford, Delaware. This proved to be a quality facility, with an overall grade of B+. We rated this facility as one of the 50 best facilities in Delaware. Fortunately, this nursing home did not have any poor grades in any of the major categories. More information about its category grades is available below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company

Awards

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Top Nursing Home in Delaware Awards 2021

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Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is it received a very impressive short-term care score. In fact, short-term care turned out to be its best category. In that area, we gave this facility an A. Our short-term care scores are probably most meaningful for individuals in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Facility Inspections

Grade: B-plus

In addition, this nursing home also received top notch inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with an B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Without information regarding deficiencies for this facility, it ended up being challenging to really assess the place in the area of inspections.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our stronger grades in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 78.08219 percent of its residents, which is a few points below what we were hoping for. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-minus

The next area we rated was this facility's weakest category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it an acceptable grade of B- for our nursing category. There are a variety of criteria included in this area. Many of the criteria are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, we also baked some quality measures into our nursing grades. This place was subpar in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are often reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care available.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: C

In Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 10.53% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 6.85% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care. Additional nurse staffing can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A-minus

In Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 0.74% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric can also be misleading for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B

In Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 14.38% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure measures the percent of long-term care patients that were given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such drugs aren't medically required. However, some facilities need to rely more on these medications due to having more patients suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A

In Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 11.81% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term stay residents who are administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A-minus

In Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 0.83% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients showing symptoms of depression. Some would argue this is a measure of quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 86.62% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: F

In Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 27.13% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and bathing. Many in the industry argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-plus

In Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 29.65% of Residents

This indicates the percent of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: D

In Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: F

In Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 29.65% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: C

In Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 15.22% of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B

In Polaris Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 78.57% of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation services.

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=085058