Seaport Village Healthcare

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received a much better grade for nursing than it received overall. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. We weighed the levels of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours the nurses were with patients, in calculating our rating in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received a strong short-term care grade. Indeed, it received one of our highest scores in this category with a score of A-. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Sadly, this facility's third best category was long-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed relatively poorly. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to a relatively low 81.92771 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.

In the last category of inspections, this ended up being this facility's worst grade. Inspection grades are based on a nursing home's recent government inspection reports. We gave this facility a D in this category, which is not a very good grade. Since this data is collected by government inspectors, we take it pretty seriously. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. We recommend you scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home was assessed one deficiency by government inspectors. Fortunately, it wasn't in a category that suggests that it caused a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, we also would like to point out that this place received significant government fines in recent years exceeding $50,000. This usually means that inspectors became frustrated after several years of failed inspections.