Seaside Rehab & Health Care

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. We assessed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving a resident at least once a day.

Contributing to its impressive profile, this nursing home also performed well in our short-term care category. In fact, it received a score of A for that category. Short-term care grades are typically used to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility has earned near flawless inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

The final area we assessed was this nursing home's poorest category. Nevertheless, even its weakest link would likely be a strength for most nursing homes. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in long-term care. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 85.5 percent of its patients, which is a few points less than we anticipated. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.