Baisch Nursing Center

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility also was awarded an impressive long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded them a grade of B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our better. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 95.783134 percent of its patients, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Sadly, this facility only received a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which is not an impressive grade. Our short-term care grades are arguably most critical for residents in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Considering its grade in this area, we were not stunned to find that this place is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

The last category we scored is nursing, which ended up being this facility's worst area. We gave it an F for this category, which is clearly very disappointing. Our nursing rating analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.