Baisch Nursing Center

We gave this facility an A- for our long-term care rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. After considering the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 98.42932 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Inspections is another area where this facility excelled. In fact, we gave this nursing home an B+ for our inspections category. Inspection grades are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. There are a variety of factors within this category. Many of these datapoints relate to levels of nurse staffing. 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. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures. While this place got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it did very well in this subcategory. This is often a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving residents at least once a day.

This nursing home's worst area was short-term care, which is the last category we looked at. For this category, we gave this facility a D. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is typically a solid assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we discovered that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.