Seashore Gardens Living Center

On top of receiving a great overall score, this nursing home excelled in inspections, which is based on its inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A in that category. Our inspection scores are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our nursing score considers several factors. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also received a strong short-term care score. Indeed, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our short-term care ratings are presumably more critical for patients requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The final area we rated was long-term care, where this facility received a grade of B+. This topped off an elite profile. Not many nursing homes received a B+ or better in every single category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death ailment for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.