The Village of East Harbor

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an excellent nursing grade, with a grade of A. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning patients even once per day.

We also would like to alert you to the fact that this nursing home received a first-rate score of A in our short-term care category. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

We awarded this nursing home an A- for inspections. Our inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This nursing home's least impressive category is long-term care, which is the final category we analyzed. For this category, we awarded this facility a grade of just D. We want to to draw your attention to this possible weak link, however, you shouldn't focus exclusively on a single area either. In computing our long-term care scores, we analyze the assistance with daily living offered to a nursing home's patients. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 94.25838 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.