Bailey-Boushay House

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. The nursing grade analyzes many components, however, the main one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient even once per day.

Compounding its fine resume, this facility also was awarded an excellent short-term care grade, with a score of A-. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

In the final category we graded, this nursing home was given a very favorable grade of A- in our long-term care category. With this score, the nursing home rounded out a straight A profile. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 92.0354 percent of its residents, which is a few points lower than we were hoping for. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.