Bangs Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

This nursing home received a quality overall grade as described above, but we especially would like to emphasize its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home received a strong long-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher grades in that category with a score of B+. Facilities that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home was awarded its third best category score in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this area, which is a decent score. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

The last category we analyzed is nursing, turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this facility a D in this area. This was one of just a few dings in a quality profile. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in computing our rating in this area. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. While this nursing home's nursing hours were below average, it surprised us in some of the qualitative data points in this category. In particular, we were pleased to find that its patients are sustaining fewer pressure ulcers than most nursing homes.