The Pavilion at Ocean Point

We would like to point out that this facility's inspection rating exceeded its overall grade. This facility earned a B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It does not appear that we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. We would like to have more information about this nursing home. Without information regarding deficiencies, it ended up being difficult to assess the place in terms of this category.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. This turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an B+. Our nursing score is primarily associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning patients even once per day.

Additionally, we awarded this nursing home a B in our short-term care category. This happens to be one of our more favorable scores. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This category is generally a solid assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. We weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Switching gears to our last area, this nursing home was awarded a decent long-term care grade of C. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted vaccination data. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.