Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab is a facility in Brunswick, Georgia, a city with 63,812 people. Featuring an overall score of A-, this nursing home is one of the better nursing homes we assessed. This is just about as good of a facility as you'll find. We also gave this nursing home impressive scores in each of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To pair with a great overall grade, we gave this facility a grade of A for inspections. Inspection ratings are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also received a top-shelf long-term care grade. This actually turned out to be this facility's second strongest category score. In that category, this facility received a grade of A. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.5122 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Nurse Quality
This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. The nursing score includes numerous datapoints. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the final area, this nursing home was awarded an extremely favorable short-term care score. While this was not nearly as dominant as a few of its other scores, this remains one of our stronger scores we offer. In crafting these short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab, 18.12% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab, 6.34% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are routinely linked to lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab, 5.35% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a barometer of nursing care . UTI's are often the result of worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic may also be skewed for some facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab, 14.67% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for many medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Tragically, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab, 27.32% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab, 5.18% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are demonstrating signs of depression. Many in the industry would argue this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab, 99.76% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these vaccines vital to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab, 17.42% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of the erosion of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab, 16.88% of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who maintained mobility. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for patients health.
Hospitalizations
In Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab, 16.88% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab, 20.83% of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab, 87.58% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Southeast Georgia Health System- Brunswick CampusAcute Care Hospitals 0.63 miles away2415 Parkwood Drive Brunswick Georgia 31520Government - Hospital District or Authority(912) 466-7000
Nearby Dialysis
- South Brunswick Dialysis1.13 miles away2930 Springdale Road Brunswick Georgia 31520Dialysis Stations: 16 (912) 267-1507
- Brunswick Dialysis2.89 miles away53 Scranton Connector Brunswick Georgia 31525CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (912) 264-8657
- Fresenius Medical Care Dialysis of Golden Isles4.16 miles away475 Gateway Center Blvd Brunswick Georgia 31525CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (912) 265-0533
- Darien Dialysis17.89 miles away5873 Hwy 17 North Darien Georgia 31305Dialysis Stations: 9 (912) 437-1211