Seaside Hhc at Atlantic Shore
1200 Atlantic Shores Drive, Virginia Beach VA 23454 · (757) 716-2060 · 84.2% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Seaside Hhc at Atlantic Shore is a small nursing home in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Sporting an overall rating of B-, this is likely a solid facility. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Virginia Beach. The best part of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
An additional strength of this nursing home is its very strong grade in short-term care. We gave them one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a score of A-. Our short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of physical therapy per week to its residents. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Virginia in this area with 63.9 percent of its patients returning home. For most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. The nursing rating assesses a handful of datapoints, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 5.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the higher totals we found. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality measures, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this metric. Avoiding major falls is usually an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we graded is long-term care, which ended up being this facility's worst area. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is clearly a major disappointment. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After considering nursing hours and other staffing provided by this facility, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Due to its grade in this category, we were surprised to learn that this nursing home performed reasonably well both subcategories. Indeed, this nursing home vaccinated 97.61905 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which appears to be higher than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 3.09 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was not bad since it had more complicated patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Seaside Hhc at Atlantic Shore Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that have had a fall resulting in serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often associated with a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this metric could be misleading for some facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term care residents taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percent of patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Increased rates of depression could indicate a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better