Sea Mar Community Care Center

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. The nursing score analyzes many subcategories, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also was awarded an A+ long-term care grade, rendering it one of the few nursing homes to receive more than one A+ category scores. For residents looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 72.16495 percent of its patients. This is slightly less than we expected but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next category we assessed is short-term care. We gave them one of our most impressive scores in that area, with a A-. In our short-term care rating, we endeavor to forge a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

In the last area we looked at, we found that this facility received a solid inspection report this year as well, with few major dings from government inspectors. It earned a decent grade in inspections with a score of B-. This nursing home didn't have any major weak links. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.