Seaford Center

    1100 Norman Eskridge Hwy, Seaford, DE 19973
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Coordination with health care providers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Transportation arrangement (medical)
    • Transportation to doctors appointments

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Dining room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    4.43·(161)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      4.2
    • Staff

      4.4
    • Meals

      3.0
    • Amenities

      2.4
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate nursing and caregiving staff
    • Attentive CNAs and evening-routine assistance
    • Strong physical and occupational therapy outcomes
    • Engaged and active activities department
    • Welcoming front-desk and reception staff
    • Clean, well-maintained common areas
    • Responsive family-facing staff and administrators
    • Enforced infection-protection protocols
    • Secure, user-friendly entry and visitor screening
    • Supportive social-work and therapy personnel
    • Attentive mealtime assistance and ordering
    • Experience with dementia care
    • Convenient location for visitors
    • Active resident social environment

    Cons

    • Inadequate staffing levels and scheduling gaps
    • Inconsistent phone responsiveness and front-desk communication
    • Delays in medication administration and clinical visits
    • Inconsistent skilled-nursing care and chronic-condition management
    • Gaps in wound care and post-operative follow-up
    • Transportation and care-coordination failures
    • Inconsistent infection-control and sanitation practices
    • Poor and inconsistent dining quality
    • Aging physical plant with small, dim rooms and outdated equipment
    • Variable staff professionalism and engagement
    • Restrictive or inconsistently applied outdoor/visitation policies
    • Limited activity engagement in certain units

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews portray a facility with a mixed performance profile: many families highlight compassionate, attentive caregivers and effective therapy services, while other reviews describe operational shortcomings that affect day-to-day care. Clinical strengths most often cited include strong physical and occupational therapy outcomes, supportive social-work and therapy personnel, and staff who communicate procedures and provide reassurance to families. Multiple reviewers emphasized positive interactions with reception and front-desk staff, secure visitor procedures, and an activities department that can create an engaging environment for residents.

    At the clinical and operational level, persistent themes point to inconsistent nursing coverage and scheduling gaps that contribute to delayed medication administration, postponed therapy or nurse visits, and missed coordination tasks such as arranging transportation to appointments. Several accounts cite deficiencies in chronic-condition management and wound care follow-up post-procedure. These concerns suggest variability in the facility’s capacity to provide consistent skilled-nursing services across all shifts.

    Staff performance is described in polarized terms: many frontline caregivers, CNAs, therapists, and some nurses receive praise for kindness, patience, and hands-on assistance, especially around mealtimes and mobility routines. Concurrently, reviewers describe long phone hold times, misdirected calls, and occasional dismissive communication from certain staff at intake or on the phone. These patterns indicate unevenness in customer-service training and administrative responsiveness rather than a uniformly poor or excellent staff culture.

    Dining and activities also show mixed experiences. The activities department is frequently called a strength and a reason for resident engagement, but other families found programming insufficient in their unit. Food quality is inconsistent across reviews — some describe good meals and attentive mealtime assistance, while others report unsatisfactory menu or presentation. Facility cleanliness receives positive mentions for common areas and overall tidiness in many accounts, but there are also sanitation and odor concerns in specific areas and isolated pest-control issues identified by families.

    The physical plant is characterized as aging in parts: reviewers mentioned small, darker rooms, older equipment, and areas that feel tired or in need of modernization. At the same time the facility’s convenient location, secure entry system, and cleaner-than-hospital comparisons are noted as positives. Management-level issues focus on inconsistent follow-through: families describe apologetic but uneven communication, delays in responding to concerns, and occasional failures in care coordination (transportation, appointment scheduling).

    For prospective residents and families, these patterns point toward a facility that can deliver high-quality rehabilitation and compassionate direct care but may struggle with staffing consistency, administrative responsiveness, and some aspects of clinical follow-up. A recommended approach is to tour the unit(s) of interest, observe staffing levels during different shifts, review protocols for wound care and chronic-condition management, ask about staffing ratios and transportation/appointment processes, and speak with the activities director about resident engagement in the specific unit under consideration.

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    Medicare Ratings

    3·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

    Seaford Center is located at 1100 Norman Eskridge Hwy, Seaford, DE, 19973.

    About Seaford Center

    Seaford Center sits on Norman Eskridge Highway in Seaford, Delaware, and is managed by Genesis HealthCare, who runs nursing centers and assisted living places in a lot of states, and you'll find both home health and hospice care there as well as skilled nursing, all open and working day and night, with care for short stays, rehab, and long-term needs. You'll see furnished rooms, each with a television and telephone, plus private or semi-private setups, and the whole place feels relaxed with air conditioning, gardens or courtyards, activity rooms, and quiet places to sit since they don't allow smoking and even pets can visit. Residents get help from registered nurses, attending physicians, and an on-site Medical Director, Dr. Joshua McAfee, alongside an on-site Nurse Practitioner, and there's a lot of therapy services-like physical, occupational, speech, and even respiratory-plus relief and palliative care for those who need special support, pain help, or memory help, and Genesis HealthCare brings education for dementia care based on best practice standards. Director of Social Services Robin Meekins and Admissions Director Christine Caripides are there to help with social needs or welcoming new folks, and staff also manage dietary and nutrition needs, medication, wound care and X-rays, dental and podiatry care, colostomy help, IVs, and TPN, while also providing pet therapy and extra hands with personal care. The place covers daily life with meals in a restaurant-style dining room, laundry you don't have to do yourself, mail and newspaper service, scheduled transportation to things outside, pharmacy delivery, housekeeping, and interpreter support if needed. Seaford Center runs several activities-cultural, religious, crafts, music, education, and social events-and there's even a beauty salon, barber shop, cable TV, wireless internet, and comfortable lounges or a café when folks get hungry outside mealtime, and families can gather in private dining rooms when they visit. They handle case management, plan for discharge, and help find community options or services as people recover, and everything stays steady with pain and medication management, memory support for people with Alzheimer's or dementia, hospice services, and Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS), so people stay safe and looked after. The place is in a quiet suburban area not far from town activities, so if people want outings or visitors, those are easy enough to manage, and, all in all, Seaford Center tries to cover both the medical and comfort sides for anyone needing a place to heal, live for a while, or get through tough times.

    People often ask...

    Seaford Center offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 1100 Norman Eskridge Hwy, Seaford, DE 19973.

    No, Seaford Center does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

    Safety & Compliance

    In Delaware, the Division of Health Care Quality licenses assisted living and long-term care facilities, conducting annual surveys, complaint investigations, and infection-control reviews.

    License number1115
    StatusLicensed
    Facility typeNursing Home
    Capacity124 residents
    EffectiveJune 1st, 2025
    ExpiresMay 31st, 2026

    Inspection Reports

    9

    Reports

    5

    Type A Citations

    1

    Type B Citations

    6

    Complaints

    3

    Years

    09 Sept 2025Complaint
    Identified deficiencies in care planning, infection control, and grievance handling with observable issues in resident records and related processes.
    • §483.80Infection prevention and control
    12 Jun 2025Complaint
    Investigated an abuse allegation and found past noncompliance due to failure to report the allegation.
    • CFR(s): 483.12(b)(5)(i)(A)(B)(c)(1)(4)Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation
    19 Dec 2024Complaint
    The provider was found with deficiencies related to medical-record practices and patient-care orders, including missing physician orders at admission and improper handling of lab results and records.
    • 483.20(a)Admission Physician Orders for Immediate Care
    • 483.70(h)Medical records retention
    22 Nov 2024Follow-Up
    Investigated the complaint and completed a follow-up survey; no deficiencies were identified.
    29 Apr 2024Complaint
    Identified deficiencies in monitoring changes in residents' conditions and in providing ADL care, with incomplete documentation and delayed responses to condition changes.
    • Type A§483.15(c)(9)Change in condition; physician notification
    • Type A§483.24(a)(2)ADL care for dependent residents
    • Type A§483.25Quality of care
    19 Mar 2024Desk Review
    Identified deficiencies in minimum nursing staffing levels and found noncompliance with state staffing requirements.
    • 16 Del. Code, Chapter 11, Subchapter VII, 1162Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Services
    06 Mar 2024Desk Review
    Identified noncompliance with minimum direct-care staffing requirements; the facility did not provide the required hours of direct care per resident per day.
    • 16 Del. Code, Chapter 11, Subchapter VII, 1162 Nursing StaffingMinimum Staffing Levels for Residential Health Facilities
    07 Sept 2023Inspection
    Investigated findings cited multiple deficiencies in resident rights, safety, and care planning.
    24 May 2023Complaint
    Found multiple deficiencies related to resident rights, care planning, and daily living support.
    • Type A§483.10(a)(2)Equal access to quality care and transfer/discharge policies
    • Type B§483.10(b)Exercise of rights
    • §483.20Plan of care
    • Type A§483.24(a)(2)ADL care provided for dependent residents

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