Complete Care Shorrock Gardens is a large facility in Brick, New Jersey. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this is likely a middle of the pack facility. Based on our assessment, this place has some redeeming qualities. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is long-term care, which is discussed in the next section.
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Complete Care Shorrock Gardens
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- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility's best grade came in long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 85.125854 percent of its residents. This is slightly below what we expected but still a decent figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Nurse Quality
Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. Our nursing score weighs many datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place excelled in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care offered.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we looked at was short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in that category. In determining these short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. It does not look like this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that just 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Complete Care Shorrock Gardens Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Complete Care Shorrock Gardens, 8.74% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term care patients who have pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Complete Care Shorrock Gardens, 1.37% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Falls are routinely caused by poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Complete Care Shorrock Gardens, 0.47% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to inadequate hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Complete Care Shorrock Gardens, 3.26% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Complete Care Shorrock Gardens, 18.09% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure tells you the percent of long-term patients who were prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are generally given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Complete Care Shorrock Gardens, 4.17% of Patients
This is the percent of residents who are exhibiting signs of depression. High levels of depression may be a sign a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Complete Care Shorrock Gardens, 91.42% of Patients
This is the percent of patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Complete Care Shorrock Gardens, 1.53% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and eating. Many in the industry would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Complete Care Shorrock Gardens, 3.02% of Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Complete Care Shorrock Gardens, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Complete Care Shorrock Gardens, 3.02% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Complete Care Shorrock Gardens, 7.66% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Complete Care Shorrock Gardens, 82.84% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's usually correlates with better rehabilitation.
Scores for Brick, NJ
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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Nearby Hospitals
- Ocean Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.58 miles away425 Jack Martin Blvd Brick New Jersey 08724Voluntary non-profit - Other(732) 840-2200
- Monmouth Medical Center-Southern CampusAcute Care Hospitals 4.19 miles away600 River Ave Lakewood New Jersey 08701Voluntary non-profit - Private(732) 363-1900
- Community Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.58 miles away99 Rt 37 West Toms River New Jersey 08755Voluntary non-profit - Private(732) 557-8000
- Centrastate Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 16.15 miles away901 West Main Street Freehold New Jersey 07728Voluntary non-profit - Private(732) 431-2000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Medical Care Toms River1.07 miles away970 Hooper Avenue Toms River New Jersey 08753CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 19 (732) 286-6502
- Physicians Dialysis Brick1.79 miles awayRenal Center 150 Brick Boulevard Brick New Jersey 08723CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (732) 477-2247
- Kamakee Dialysis (Davita Ocean County Dc)3.13 miles away635 Bay Avenue Suite 215 Toms River New Jersey 08753Dialysis Stations: 10 (732) 341-2730
- Meridian-Fresenius Dialysis at Brick3.37 miles away1640 Route 88 Suite 102 Brick New Jersey 08724CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (732) 785-2690
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- Fmc Lakewood Dialysis4.34 miles awaySeagull Shopping Plaza 1328 River Avenue Ste 16 Lakewood New Jersey 08701Dialysis Stations: 18 (732) 730-2222
- Fmc John J De Palma Renal Center6.34 miles away1 Plaza Drive Toms River New Jersey 08757CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (732) 505-0637
- Davita Jackson Township Dialysis10.19 miles away260 North County Line Road Suite 120 Jackson New Jersey 08527Dialysis Stations: 10 (732) 364-2055