Shore Acres Care Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades was in the category of short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B. It actually outpaced most nursing homes in this area. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is far below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

Our next category is long-term care, in which we awarded this facility a C in this area. In the area of long-term care, we focus on the amount of care provided by a nursing home, as opposed to more sophisticated services. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 93.22034 percent of its patients, which is slightly lower than we expected. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.