Sears Coastal Nursing & Rehab

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home also received an excellent nursing grade, with an A. There are quite a few criteria included in this category. Many of the factors are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided 5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, which was among the better figures we found. Finally, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls which lead to major injury, this place performed as well as any facility in the state. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility has received near flawless government inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Our inspection grades are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This nursing home is also above average in the category of short-term care, where it received a score of B+. It performed more favorably than most nursing homes in this area. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is typically a meaningful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that it performed better than most nursing homes in this area with 53.2 percent of its patients returning home.

The last area we assessed was long-term care. This facility received a strong nursing grade this year, with a B. While this is not quite as elite as several of its other scores, this remains one of our better scores in this category. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the criteria we considered on top of this nursing home's impressive nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.58491 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for seniors. The last statistic we assessed was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 2.55 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.